{"id":15783,"date":"2009-04-04T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/saturday-science-beautiful-bubbles-balloons-more.html"},"modified":"2009-04-04T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:04:41","slug":"saturday_science_beautiful_bubbles_balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/saturday_science_beautiful_bubbles_balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Science: Beautiful bubbles, balloons, &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Spheres, large &amp; small:\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Tozer creates lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/creativereview\/sets\/72157605540810101\/\">bubble photography<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Hubble recently captured a very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/03\/17\/incredible-quadruple-transit-on-saturn\/\">quadruple lunar transit of Saturn<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/03\/quadruple-transit-of-saturn\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Four Spanish teenagers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/5005022\/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html\">sent a camera to the edge of space<\/a>.  Kinda beats listening to Jane&#8217;s A &amp; driving a minivan, or whatever I was doing at that age. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/03\/17\/teens-send-balloon-i.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Aiming to digitize &amp; preserve historic photos, NASA has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-10097025-52.html?tag=nl.e703\">unveiled a lunar image recovery project<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Historic bits from Bibliodyssey:\n<ul>\n<li>The beautifully illustrated <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/book-of-eclipses.html\">Book of Eclipses<\/a> dates from the 16th century. <\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/echinodermata.html\">Echinodermata<\/a><\/em> rounds up some lovely 19th-century scientific illustrations of fossilized creatures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, a space-related quote o&#8217; the day: &#8220;Space isn&#8217;t remote at all. It&#8217;s only an hour&#8217;s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Hoyle\">Fred Hoyle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spheres, large &amp; small: Jason Tozer creates lovely bubble photography. The Hubble recently captured a very cool quadruple lunar transit of Saturn. [Via] Four Spanish teenagers sent a camera to the edge of space. Kinda beats listening to Jane&#8217;s A &amp; driving a minivan, or whatever I was doing at that age. [Via] Aiming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}