{"id":925,"date":"2005-04-01T21:24:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T03:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:43","slug":"star-qulit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"star qulit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it nice to sleep under the stars? How about sleeping under a <em>quilt<\/em> of stars instead? Judy Ross, a 68-year-old retired teacher and  astronomy enthusiast, has produced this colorful quilt featuring some of  her favorite images recorded by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.<a href=\"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/quilt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-928\" title=\"quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/04\/quilt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Called, appropriately enough, <em>What the Hubble Saw,<\/em> the quilt  features (starting clockwise from the lower right) the Red Rectangle  Nebula, the Eskimo Nebula, the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy,V838 Monocerotis  (a star in the Milky Way), and the supernova remnant N49 (the remains of  an exploded star).<\/p>\n<p>Ross says her love of astronomy is due to growing up in the high desert  of southern Idaho, &#8220;when there was no light pollution and no television  and every night was the best show you could ever imagine.&#8221; She&#8217;s made a  dozen or so astronomy-themed quilts.<\/p>\n<p><em>What the Hubble Saw<\/em> is now hanging in Ross&#8217;s living room.  Unfortunately, sized at only 41 by 38 inches, it&#8217;s just a little bit too  small for her to sleep under.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the Hubble Space Telescope and its spectacular images go to hubblesite.org<\/p>\n<p>To see another Ross quilt go to antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap031017.html<\/p>\n<h6><em>This article appeared in the April 2005 issue of the children&#8217;s science magazine <\/em>Muse.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it nice to sleep under the stars? How about sleeping under a quilt of stars instead? Judy Ross, a 68-year-old retired teacher and astronomy enthusiast, has produced this colorful quilt featuring some of her favorite images recorded by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-childrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}