{"id":893955,"date":"2026-03-24T04:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/science-through-shadows-how-astronomical-alignments-reveal-the-universe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:19:20","slug":"science-through-shadows-how-astronomical-alignments-reveal-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/science-through-shadows-how-astronomical-alignments-reveal-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Through Shadows: How Astronomical Alignments Reveal the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space \u2013 and sometimes across Earth. These moments of alignment, known as eclipses, occultations, and transits, allow scientists to study distant objects in remarkable ways. By observing how light changes when an object briefly blocks another&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/learning-resources\/science-activation\/science-through-shadows-how-astronomical-alignments-reveal-the-universe\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Bong Wiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space \u2013 and sometimes across Earth. These moments of alignment, known as eclipses, occultations, and transits, allow scientists to study distant objects in remarkable ways. By observing how light changes when an object briefly blocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3421,536,3327],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-893955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-through"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}