{"id":599209,"date":"2026-04-11T03:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599209\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:16:14","slug":"starstruck-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599209\/","title":{"rendered":"Starstruck &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis II<\/a> crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis-ii-multimedia\/#images\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis-ii-multimedia\/#images\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more photos from the mission.<\/a><br \/>Image credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artemis II crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[3105,63353,64,63,36750,128,285,109152],"class_list":["post-599209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis","tag-artemis-2","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-galaxies","tag-science","tag-space","tag-the-milky-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}