{"id":673469,"date":"2020-11-18T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=673469"},"modified":"2020-11-18T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:49:28","slug":"scientists-discover-outer-space-isnt-pitch-black-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=673469","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn&#039;t Pitch Black After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nh-sc-pluto-illustration_wide-a8112384e8f516ff5f1063011c27e4d5e37a76c2.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists have used the New Horizons spacecraft, billions of miles from Earth, to measure the darkness of space.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used a NASA probe way out in space, beyond Pluto, to measure visible light that&#8217;s not connected to any known source like stars or galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA \/ Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/npr-rss-pixel-7.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/18\/936219170\/scientists-discover-outer-space-isnt-pitch-black-after-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn&#8217;t Pitch Black After All<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have used a NASA probe way out in space, beyond Pluto, to measure visible light that&#8217;s not connected to any known source like stars or galaxies. (Image credit: NASA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673469","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673469\/revisions"}],"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=673469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}