{"id":24843,"date":"2022-04-09T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24843"},"modified":"2022-04-09T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T04:56:14","slug":"mars-saturn-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24843","title":{"rendered":"Mars Saturn Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2204\/mars_saturn_2022_04_04dp1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Fainter stars in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus are scattered near the plane of the ecliptic in this field of view. The two brightest ones at center aren&#8217;t stars at all though, but the planets Mars and Saturn. Taken on the morning of April 4, the telescopic snapshot captured their tantalizing close conjunction in a predawn sky, the pair of planets separated by only about 1\/3 of a degree. That&#8217;s easily less than the apparent width of a Full Moon. Can you tell which planet is which? If you guessed Mars is the redder one , you&#8217;d be right. Above Mars, slightly fainter Saturn still shines with a paler yellowish tinge in reflected sunlight. Even at the low magnification, Saturn&#8217;s largest and brightest moon Titan can be spotted hugging the planet very closely on the left. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220409.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fainter stars in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus are scattered near the plane of the ecliptic in this field of view. The two brightest ones at center aren&#8217;t stars at all <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24843\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24844,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions\/24844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}