{"id":15392,"date":"2014-02-12T01:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15392"},"modified":"2014-02-12T01:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:43:57","slug":"star-party-bigger-than-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/star-party-bigger-than-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Party Bigger Than Oscars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/avastar.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: Big Bear Lake just announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/big-bear-lake-starlight-festival.html\"><strong>new StarLight Festival<\/strong><\/a> in which stargazers are invited to gather to watch the stars&#8211;and we&#8217;re not talking Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Dern, Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett. That OTHER star party (Academy Awards on Mar. 2, 2014) \u00a0is just a bunch of actors hoping to win awards for mimicking life. The REAL Star Party takes place in the sky. How insignificant are we tiny specks of stardust in the cosmos? <strong>Listen to some stars to find out: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Story Musgrave, a United States Hall of Fame Astronaut who flew in six space shuttle missions in the 80s and 90s<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Seth Shostak, a Senior Astronomer at SETI Institute and Chairman of the International Academy of Astronautics who is best known for his work analyzing radio signals for extraterrestrial intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Linda Spilker, JPL Scientist who is best known for her work with the Cassini Mission of Saturn and is considered the most knowledgeable in her field regarding Saturn\u2019s rings<\/li>\n<li>Rob Manning, JPL Chief Engineer of the Mars Pathfinder flight system<\/li>\n<li>Dr. David Steinfeld, JPL scientist of the Curiosity Rover Mission to Mars<\/li>\n<li>Dr. David Levy, a renowned comet discoverer<\/li>\n<li>Mike Simmons, Executive Director of Astronomers Without Borders<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Stephen J. Edberg, Project Scientist for the NASA\/JPL Space Interferometry Mission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING NEWS: Big Bear Lake just announced a new StarLight Festival in which stargazers are invited to gather to watch the stars&#8211;and we&#8217;re not talking Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Dern, Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett. That OTHER star party (Academy Awards on Mar. 2, 2014) \u00a0is just a bunch of actors hoping to win awards for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}