{"id":3926016,"date":"2026-05-19T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/indigenous-australians-were-the-worlds-first-astronomers-but-their-knowledge-is-now-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:01:32","slug":"indigenous-australians-were-the-worlds-first-astronomers-but-their-knowledge-is-now-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/indigenous-australians-were-the-worlds-first-astronomers-but-their-knowledge-is-now-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Australians were the world&#8217;s first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;m a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I look at the night sky, I don&#8217;t just see stars. Instead, I see an ancient knowledge system that has guided people, culture and Country for tens of thousands of years.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-indigenous-australians-world-astronomers-knowledge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I look at the night sky, I don&#8217;t just see stars. Instead, I see an ancient knowledge system that has guided people, culture and Country for tens of thousands of years. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}