{"id":544,"date":"2010-02-15T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-02-15T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:30:04","slug":"earth-surrounded-by-emptiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/earth-surrounded-by-emptiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth surrounded by emptiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not news: it&#8217;s called space. But the news is that the space near us is <em>especially<\/em> empty. You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/02\/new-3-d-map-of-the-interstellar-gas-around-the-sun\/\">a map<\/a> of what&#8217;s called the &#8220;Local Cavity,&#8221; a region about 260 light years across that&#8217;s more empty than average. Scientists believe that this void is a sort of crater blasted empty by a supernova 5-10 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not news: it&#8217;s called space. But the news is that the space near us is especially empty. You can see a map of what&#8217;s called the &#8220;Local Cavity,&#8221; a region about 260 light years across that&#8217;s more empty than average. Scientists believe that this void is a sort of crater blasted empty by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-8M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}