{"id":91013,"date":"2025-02-19T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=91013"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:07:28","slug":"spacing-out-what-is-the-ecliptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_19_2025\/spacing-out-what-is-the-ecliptic","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Spacing Out: What is the &#8216;Ecliptic&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Cushing, a professor of astronomy and director of UToledo&#8217;s Ritter Planetarium, explains that planets rotate around the sun on the same plane that astronomers call the ecliptic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TnywXU4hhIE?si=CrKEt-bTIU6AlA9s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Cushing, a professor of astronomy and director of UToledo&#8217;s Ritter Planetarium, explains that planets rotate around the sun on the same plane that astronomers call the ecliptic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[76],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91014,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91013\/revisions\/91014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}