NASA APOD · Example Payload

Apod Single Date

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Apod Single Date is an example object payload from NASA APOD, with 9 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

datetitleexplanationurlhdurlmedia_typeservice_versionconcept_tagsconcepts

Example Payload

{
  "date": "2013-10-01",
  "title": "Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant",
  "explanation": "The explosion is over but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays. The above image captures some of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that rotates completely around more than ten times in a single second.",
  "url": "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1310/velafilaments_jadescope_960.jpg",
  "hdurl": "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1310/velafilaments_jadescope_2000.jpg",
  "media_type": "image",
  "service_version": "v1",
  "concept_tags": "True",
  "concepts": {
    "0": "Astronomy",
    "1": "Star",
    "2": "Sun",
    "3": "Milky Way",
    "4": "Hubble Space Telescope",
    "5": "Earth",
    "6": "Nebula",
    "7": "Interstellar medium"
  }
}