{"id":600154,"date":"2026-04-22T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:29:10","slug":"scientists-reveal-identity-of-mysterious-golden-orb-collected-during-noaa-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600154\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal identity of mysterious \u2018golden orb\u2019 collected during NOAA expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A close up image of the \u201cgolden orb\u201d in the lab of the Smithsonian Institution. Following collection, the\u00a0orb sample was officially accessioned as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalhistory.si.edu\/research\/invertebrate-zoology\" class=\" ext-link-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Invertebrate Zoology Collection offsite link<\/a> at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of Natural History. The museum catalogs, curates and makes biological samples collected during expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer publicly available. The orb is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/n2t.net\/ark:\/65665\/34eab8317-0074-47c8-af0e-8d7a8943378a\" class=\" ext-link-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USNM_IZ_1699903 offsite link<\/a> within the museum collection. (Image credit: NOAA Fisheries)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close up image of the \u201cgolden orb\u201d in the lab of the Smithsonian Institution. Following collection, the\u00a0orb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[21595,150520,20194,261139,70188,261140,1728,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-600154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-discoveries","9":"tag-earth-day","10":"tag-marine-life","11":"tag-ocean-coasts","12":"tag-ocean-exploration","13":"tag-okeanos-explorer","14":"tag-research","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600154","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=600154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}