{"id":13420,"date":"2019-01-01T20:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-queen-guitarist-brian-may-discusses-his-song-celebrating-ultima-thule-flyby\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T20:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:11:58","slug":"video-queen-guitarist-brian-may-discusses-his-song-celebrating-ultima-thule-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-queen-guitarist-brian-may-discusses-his-song-celebrating-ultima-thule-flyby\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Queen guitarist Brian May discusses his song celebrating Ultima Thule flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/308955490\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Queen guitarist and contributing New Horizons scientist Brian May wrote a song celebrating the spacecraft\u2019s New Year\u2019s flyby with Ultima Thule, a supposed block of ice and rock in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>May is expected to release the track shortly after midnight on New Year\u2019s Day at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where scientists, space enthusiasts and the media are gathered for the the New Horizons spacecraft\u2019s encounter with the most distant planetary body ever explored up-close.<\/p>\n<p>The rock star astrophysicist discussed the song with reporters on New Year\u2019s Eve, a few hours before the flyby.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen guitarist and contributing New Horizons scientist Brian May wrote a song celebrating the spacecraft\u2019s New Year\u2019s flyby with Ultima Thule, a supposed block of ice and rock in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Pluto. May is expected to release the track shortly after midnight on New Year\u2019s Day at the Johns Hopkins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2337,2786,1861,2173,190,2020,2174,1561],"class_list":["post-13420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2014-mu69","tag-brian-may","tag-jhuapl","tag-kuiper-belt","tag-nasa","tag-new-frontiers","tag-new-horizons","tag-planetary-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}