{"id":358349,"date":"2017-08-14T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5cb285f75eb0da6a86d44ef39f50e473"},"modified":"2017-08-14T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:00:04","slug":"image-a-partial-solar-eclipse-seen-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=358349","title":{"rendered":"Image: A partial solar eclipse seen from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the moon&#8217;s average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger sun. Once in a while the moon slides directly between Earth and the sun such that it appears to cover our star completely, temporarily blocking out its light and creating a total solar eclipse for those along the narrow path cast by the moon&#8217;s shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a quirk of our cosmos, the moon&#8217;s average distance from Earth is just right for it to appear as the same size in the sky as the significantly larger sun. Once in a while the moon slides directly between Earth and the sun such that it appears &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358349","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358350,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358349\/revisions\/358350"}],"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=358349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}