{"id":4418,"date":"2020-05-16T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2020-05-16T08:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:47:14","slug":"barnards-star-2012-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/barnards-star-2012-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnard&#8217;s Star &#8211; The rapidly moving star."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barnard&#8217;s Star is a very interesting star.<\/p>\n<p>It is known as The Runaway Star, and for good reason.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s apparent motion across the sky is relatively fast.<\/p>\n<p>This is a result of it being fairly close to us and its motion changes by a degree every 351 years.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an animated GIF of Barnard&#8217;s Star showing its rapid movement across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>One image was taken by me in June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The other image taken by Nick Hewitt more recently.<\/p>\n<p>You can see how much the star has shifted north over 8 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/BarnardsStar.gif\" width=\"555\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnard&#8217;s Star is a very interesting star. It is known as The Runaway Star, and for good reason. It&#8217;s apparent motion across the sky is relatively fast. This is a result of it being fairly close to us and its motion changes by a degree every 351 years. Below is an animated GIF of Barnard&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Barnard's Star - The rapidly moving star. - Star-Gazing","description":"Barnard's Star is a very interesting star. It is known as The Runaway Star, and for good reason. It's apparent motion across the sky is relatively fast. This is"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}