{"id":198011,"date":"2025-10-02T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:59:08","slug":"out-of-this-world-image-wins-top-astrophotography-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198011\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of this world image wins top Astrophotography Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">An American won top honors in a competition of photographers from around the world for his captivating image of deep space called &#8220;Flying Bat and The Giant Squid Nebula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Peter O&#8217;Dowd speaks with 2025 Astrophotographer of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/starman_astro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ani Shastry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the \u201cbubble nebula\u201d, sculpted by the stellar winds given off by a super massive, extremely hot star, whose lifetime is also much shorter compared to our sun. (Courtesy of Ani Shastry)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>An image of the \u201cbubble nebula\u201d, sculpted by the stellar winds given off by a super massive, extremely hot star, whose lifetime is also much shorter compared to our sun. (Courtesy of Ani Shastry)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on October 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American won top honors in a competition of photographers from around the world for his captivating image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-198011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}