{"id":803170,"date":"2026-07-29T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803170"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:06:37","slug":"apod-2026-july-28-barnards-loop-over-twin-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803170","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 July 28 &#8211; Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Explanation:\u00a0<\/strong>What&#8217;s connecting these two volcanoes? In ancient folklore, the two volcanoes,\u00a0Parinacota (left) and Pomerape (right), are connected by representing a\u00a0mythical\u00a0prince and princess who engaged in a forbidden romance. Beneath the ground, the\u00a0two peaks\u00a0are not known to be connected by a common pool of\u00a0hot magma, and neither volcano has erupted in the past 1000 years. Above the ground, there is usually nothing in the sky that connects them &#8212; except if you use careful timing and look from a specific location. The\u00a0featured well-planned image\u00a0was captured from\u00a0Bolivia\u00a0in mid-April with a series of camera exposures taken on the same day and from the same location. Then,\u00a0Barnard&#8217;s Loop\u00a0appeared\u00a0to connect the volcanic peaks. Also visible in the image is the\u00a0Orion Nebula\u00a0in the center, the star\u00a0Betelgeuse\u00a0on the right, and the\u00a0Rosette\u00a0Nebula\u00a0on the upper right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture:<\/strong> open space\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod\/apod-2026-july-28-barnards-loop-over-twin-volcanoes\/?rand=772140\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explanation:\u00a0What&#8217;s connecting these two volcanoes? In ancient folklore, the two volcanoes,\u00a0Parinacota (left) and Pomerape (right), are connected by representing a\u00a0mythical\u00a0prince and princess who engaged in a forbidden romance. Beneath the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronautics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803170","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=803170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}