{"id":3885,"date":"2026-07-10T23:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2026-07-ancient-astronomers-theta-eridani-brighter-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:20:01","slug":"2026-07-ancient-astronomers-theta-eridani-brighter-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2026-07-ancient-astronomers-theta-eridani-brighter-html\/","title":{"rendered":"To ancient astronomers, Theta Eridani was brighter for 1,000 years\u2014now we know why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To ancient astronomers, Theta Eridani was brighter for 1,000 years\u2014now we know why<br \/>\n<!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>There&#8217;s a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the second century A.D. and al-Sufi in A.D. 964 both recorded Theta Eridani as one of the 13 brightest stars in the sky. Hipparchus may have said the same. But there&#8217;s a problem. For it to be one of the 13 brightest, it had to be much more luminous than it is today.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-ancient-astronomers-theta-eridani-brighter.html\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <\/p>\n<div>The latest science news on astronomy, astrobiology,  and space exploration from Phys.org.<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>SPACEPERIUM CORPS &#038; RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Please comment below with research and links for fellow members to conduct further research into this area.<br \/>\nYou must be registered and signed into SPACEPERIUM BLOG in order to leave your comment and get credited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ancient astronomers, Theta Eridani was brighter for 1,000 years\u2014now we know why There&#8217;s a bit of a historical mystery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceperium-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}