{"id":6107,"date":"2026-07-17T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:48:59","slug":"first-photographs-of-a-star-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6107","title":{"rendered":"First Photographs of a Star &#8211; 1850"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harvard Observatory in 1850 took the first photographs of a star<\/strong>. Mr. J. A. Whipple, under the direction of Professor W. C. Bond, chose Vega in the Lyra constellation for their subject. Vega is the second brightest star in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Observatory in 1850 took the first photographs of a star. Mr. J. A. Whipple, under the direction of Professor W. C. Bond, chose Vega in the Lyra constellation for their subject. Vega is the second brightest star in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5723,739,738,5722,742,740,741],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5723","tag-first-photographs-of-a-star-mr-j-a-whipple","tag-harvard-observatory","tag-july-17","tag-lyra-constellation","tag-professor-w-c-bond","tag-vega","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}