{"id":508,"date":"2006-04-24T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/04\/24\/happy-launch-day-hubble\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T17:30:51","slug":"happy-launch-day-hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/04\/24\/happy-launch-day-hubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Launch-day Hubble!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, making this date its birthday, or more accurately, its <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/newsdesk\/archive\/releases\/2006\/14\/\">sixteenth launch-day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/newsdesk\/archive\/releases\/1996\/38\/image\/b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/April\/Lagoon-Nebula-Hubble.jpg\" alt=\"Hubble image of giant twisters in the Lagoon Nebula\" title=\"Hubble image of giant twisters in the Lagoon Nebula\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hubble has produced some <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/gallery\/\">truly remarkable images of space<\/a>, and I always enjoy looking at them and marveling at the wondrousness of our Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, making this date its birthday, or more accurately, its sixteenth launch-day. Hubble has produced some truly remarkable images of space, and I always enjoy looking at them and marveling at the wondrousness of our Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}