{"id":924202,"date":"2026-08-02T02:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/apod-2026-july-31-ngc-4372-and-the-dark-doodad\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:11:41","slug":"apod-2026-july-31-ngc-4372-and-the-dark-doodad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/apod-2026-july-31-ngc-4372-and-the-dark-doodad\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 July 31 \u2013 NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 July 31 \u2013 NGC\u2026Today\u2019s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss\u00a0 APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod\/apod-2026-july-31-ngc-4372-and-the-dark-doodad\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Becki Volkman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 July 31 \u2013 NGC\u2026Today\u2019s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss\u00a0 APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":924203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151433,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-doodad","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924202","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=924202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}