{"id":120346,"date":"2025-09-07T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120346\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:48:07","slug":"phenomenal-interest-prompts-new-sherwood-observatory-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120346\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phenomenal&#8217; interest prompts new Sherwood Observatory funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sherwood Observatory, in Coxmoor Road, now features a 59-seat dome with an &#8220;immersive&#8221; 10m (32.8ft) diameter screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is also an underground exhibition space in a converted Victorian reservoir, a science discovery centre, meeting rooms, classrooms, and a cafe run by the Academy Transformation Trust Further Education College as a student outreach project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The attraction is a joint venture between Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society and Ashfield District Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor for growth, regeneration and local planning at the council, Matthew Relf, said the interest in the attraction had been &#8220;phenomenal&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sherwood Observatory, in Coxmoor Road, now features a 59-seat dome with an &#8220;immersive&#8221; 10m (32.8ft) diameter screen. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}