{"id":64,"date":"2026-10-30T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:08:21","slug":"a-2700-year-old-solar-eclipse-just-revealed-something-surprising-about-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"A 2,700-year-old solar eclipse just revealed something surprising about Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; color: #334155; margin-bottom: 25px;\">A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth&#039;s rotation and the Sun&#039;s ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ancient Chinese capital, scientists were able to reconstruct a total solar eclipse that occurred in 709 BCE and obtain more accurate measurements of how fast Earth was spinning at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/10\/261025073055.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block; padding:12px 26px; background:#0f172a; color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; border-radius:6px; text-decoration:none;\">Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth&#039;s rotation and the Sun&#039;s ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ancient Chinese capital, scientists were able to reconstruct a total solar eclipse that occurred in 709 BCE and obtain more accurate measurements of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n.movienightfestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}