{"id":24776,"date":"2011-02-10T21:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/10\/it-turns-out-north-america-is\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:35:35","slug":"it-turns-out-north-america-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/it-turns-out-north-america-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It turns out, North America is an illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I suspected. Viewed in a different light, North America vanishes.  In the upper left is the North American Nebula as seen in the visible light spectrum. Obviously, it looks just like North America:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1706f29c7c52636f7b2c03fcd00f1a77-NorthAmericaNeb.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-1706f29c7c52636f7b2c03fcd00f1a77-NorthAmericaNeb.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But when viewed in different parts of the spectra, it goes away.  Read the story and see the pretty pictures at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2011-047&#038;cid=release_2011-047#5\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I suspected. Viewed in a different light, North America vanishes. In the upper left is the North American Nebula as seen in the visible light spectrum. Obviously, it looks just like North America: But when viewed in different parts of the spectra, it goes away. Read the story and see the pretty pictures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/it-turns-out-north-america-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It turns out, North America is an illusion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6rC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}