{"id":329781,"date":"2017-06-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=65fa42ee7c18b6fc6bb3abf1330e371e"},"modified":"2017-06-09T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:00:00","slug":"the-future-of-the-orion-constellation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=329781","title":{"rendered":"The future of the Orion constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/06\/the_future_of_the_orion_constellation\/16980810-1-eng-GB\/The_future_of_the_Orion_constellation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis video reveals how our view of the Orion constellation will evolve over the next 450 000 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmid a myriad of drifting stars, the shape of Orion as defined by its brightest stars is slowly rearranged into a new pattern as time goes by.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe portion of the sky depicted in the video measures 40 x 20\u00ba \u2013 as a comparison, the diameter of the full Moon in the sky is about half a degree.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video is based on data from ESA&#8217;s Gaia and Hipparcos satellites, as well as additional information from ground-based observations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/The_future_of_the_Orion_constellation\">The future of the Orion constellation<\/a><br \/>\nThe evolution of two million stellar positions on the entire sky is shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/04\/The_motion_of_two_million_stars\">here<\/a><br \/>A speeded-up version of the video is available <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/gaia\/59209-the-future-of-the-orion-constellation-speeded-up\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/06\/the_future_of_the_orion_constellation\/16980810-1-eng-GB\/The_future_of_the_Orion_constellation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis video reveals how our view of the Orion constellation will evolve over the next 450 000 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmid a myriad of drifting stars, the shape of Orion as defined by its brightest stars is slowly rearranged into a new pattern as time goes by.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe portion of the sky depicted in the video measures 40 x 20&ordm; &ndash; as a comparison, the diameter of the full Moon in the sky is about half a degree.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video is based on data from ESA&#8217;s Gaia and Hipparcos satellites, as well as additional information from ground-based observations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/The_future_of_the_Orion_constellation\">The future of the Orion constellation<\/a><br \/>\nThe evolution of two million stellar positions on the entire sky is shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/04\/The_motion_of_two_million_stars\">here<\/a><br \/>A speeded-up version of the video is available <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/gaia\/59209-the-future-of-the-orion-constellation-speeded-up\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329781","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329782,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329781\/revisions\/329782"}],"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=329781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}