{"id":190725,"date":"2026-04-09T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:32:13","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-stunning-milky-way-images-captured-as-artemis-ii-astronauts-begin-journey-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190725\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Stunning Milky Way Images Captured As Artemis Ii Astronauts Begin Journey Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Breathtaking images of the Milky Way are offering a final highlight as the Artemis II astronauts make their way back to Earth following a record\u2011breaking mission.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NASA says the four astronauts are expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean tomorrow, marking the end of their journey to the far side of the moon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">During the mission, the crew captured striking photographs showing the Milky Way galaxy, filled with stars, clouds of dust and gas, and a massive black hole at its center.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NASA shared the images as part of the mission\u2019s highlights from deep space.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Crew members said they have many more photos and stories to share once they safely return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breathtaking images of the Milky Way are offering a final highlight as the Artemis II astronauts make their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-190725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}