{"id":9121,"date":"2013-11-20T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:35:53","slug":"exploring-your-universe-event-delights-science-enthusiasts-of-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9121","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Your Universe delights science enthusiasts of all ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" alt=\"img_6439_mod\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/gallery\/exploring-your-universe-2013\/img_6439_mod.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>UCLA held the fifth annual <a title=\"Exploring Your Universe\" href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/image-gallery\/exploring-your-universe\/\">Exploring Your Universe science outreach day<\/a> on November 17, 2013.\u00a0 This free public event was attended by 4000-4500 participants and featured hands-on activities and demos sponsored by science departments and student groups across campus.\u00a0 Science enthusiasts of all ages spent the day observing the Sun through telescopes, seeing themselves in infrared, making their own fossils, launching rockets, and sampling liquid nitrogen ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>View some photos of the event below.\u00a0 For more photos, click <a title=\"Exploring Your Universe 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/image-gallery\/exploring-your-universe-2013\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/nextgen-attach_to_post\/preview\/id--9122\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA held the fifth annual Exploring Your Universe science outreach day on November 17, 2013.\u00a0 This free public event was attended by 4000-4500 participants and featured hands-on activities and demos sponsored by science departments and student groups across campus.\u00a0 Science enthusiasts of all ages spent the day observing the Sun through telescopes, seeing themselves in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=9121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploring Your Universe delights science enthusiasts of all ages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}