{"id":3219,"date":"2008-12-17T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/beautiful-beyond-words\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T09:49:00","slug":"beautiful-beyond-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/beautiful-beyond-words.html","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Beyond Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/12\/17\/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2008\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bad Astronomy has the top ten astronomy images for 2008<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/12\/17\/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2008\/?pid=9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Number 4<\/a> is aptly described as \u201cbeautiful beyond words\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrofoto.es\/Galeria\/2008\/ngc7331caha\/NGC7331_3000.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.astrofoto.es\/Galeria\/2008\/ngc7331caha\/NGC7331_3000.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>Be sure to go take a look at it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrofoto.es\/Galeria\/2008\/ngc7331caha\/ngc7331_3000.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">full resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8600305367410498569?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Astronomy has the top ten astronomy images for 2008. 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