{"id":256324,"date":"2016-12-26T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8b8ecf7375c7422c694b13081186fb11"},"modified":"2016-12-26T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T23:15:00","slug":"vera-rubin-who-confirmed-existence-of-dark-matter-dies-at-88-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=256324","title":{"rendered":"Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter, Dies At 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/12\/26\/pstverarubinlowell300-copy_wide-2b16f1cf5bdd267aa5f8539b530d16d68d56132e.jpg?s=600' alt='Vera Rubin works at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., in 1965.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The astrophysicist&#8217;s groundbreaking research on spiral galaxies provided evidence of invisible dark matter. She was a pioneer in an era when women were excluded from many astronomy programs.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Carnegie Institution)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=507022497' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astrophysicist&#8217;s groundbreaking research on spiral galaxies provided evidence of invisible dark matter. She was a pioneer in an era when women were excluded from many astronomy programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256325,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256324\/revisions\/256325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}