{"id":508107,"date":"2018-08-13T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1b25918ee9453dba2b9ac6bf61b02f24"},"modified":"2018-08-13T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:35:03","slug":"image-partial-solar-eclipse-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=508107","title":{"rendered":"Image: Partial solar eclipse 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-508107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508107","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=508107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508108,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508107\/revisions\/508108"}],"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=508107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}