{"id":469706,"date":"2018-05-02T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=85ac7bac0f13ce975e2fbb7e8ae7db48"},"modified":"2018-05-02T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:30:01","slug":"elements-from-the-stars-the-unexpected-discovery-that-upended-astrophysics-66-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=469706","title":{"rendered":"Elements from the stars\u2014the unexpected discovery that upended astrophysics 66 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill was watching the sky through a telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. As he observed the light coming from a distant star, he saw signatures of the element technetium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill was watching the sky through a telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. As he observed the light coming from a distant star, he saw signatures of the element technetium.<\/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-469706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469706","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=469706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469707,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469706\/revisions\/469707"}],"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=469706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}