{"id":401609,"date":"2026-04-20T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/401609\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:49:08","slug":"2026-april-19-eye-on-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/401609\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 April 19 \u2013 Eye on the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discover the cosmos!<\/a>
\nEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n<\/p>\n

2026 April 19
\n

\n\"The<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Explanation:
\nHave you ever had
\nstars in your eyes<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It appears that the eye on the left does, and moreover, it appears to be gazing at even more stars.<\/p>\n

The
\nfeatured 27-frame mosaic<\/a> was taken in 2019 from
\nOjas de Salar<\/a> in the
\nAtacama Desert<\/a> of
\nChile<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The eye is actually a small
\nlagoon<\/a> captured reflecting the
\ndark night sky<\/a>
\nas the Milky Way Galaxy arched overhead.<\/p>\n

The seemingly smooth band of the
\nMilky Way<\/a> is really composed of billions of stars,
\nbut decorated with filaments of light-absorbing dust and
\nred-glowing nebulas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additionally, both
\nJupiter<\/a>
\n(slightly left the galactic arch) and
\nSaturn<\/a>
\n(slightly to the right) are visible. <\/p>\n

The lights of small towns dot the
\nunusual vertical<\/a> horizon. <\/p>\n

The rocky terrain<\/a> around the
\nlagoon appears to some more like the surface of
\nMars<\/a> than our
\nEarth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27351,85,46,15882,2234,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-401609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-eye","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-lake","12":"tag-milky-way","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}