{"id":1591,"date":"2024-02-09T06:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2024-02-08T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:09:37","slug":"casting-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/casting-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/castingshadowsfc.jpg?resize=450%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20765\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Casting Shadows: Solar and Lunar Eclipses with The Planetary Society \u00ae<\/em><br \/>\nby Bruce Betts (Author)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SQy1o1\">Amazon<\/a>* | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9798765608975\">Bookshop<\/a>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> <em>The year 2024 is set to have multiple solar and lunar eclipses.<\/em> Learn about the different kinds of eclipses. Then discover when they happen, how to watch them, and the cool things that can happen during an eclipse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/castingshadowsint.jpg?resize=525%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20766\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casting Shadows: Solar and Lunar Eclipses with The Planetary Society \u00ae by Bruce Betts (Author) @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: The year 2024 is set to have multiple solar and lunar eclipses. Learn about the different kinds of eclipses. Then discover when they happen, how to watch them, and the cool things that can happen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/casting-shadows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Casting Shadows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-pF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":451,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/luna-by-david-a-aguilar\/","url_meta":{"origin":1591,"position":0},"title":"Luna by David A. 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