{"id":13939,"date":"2018-01-12T05:56:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2018-01-12T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:56:52","slug":"blue-comet-panstarrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13939","title":{"rendered":"Blue Comet PanSTARRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1801\/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Discovered with the PanSTARRS telescope on September 7, 2016, this Comet PanSTARRS, C\/2016 R2, is presently about 24 light minutes (3 AU) from the Sun, sweeping through planet Earth&#8217;s skies across the background of stars in the constellation Taurus. An inbound visitor from our Solar System&#8217;s distant Oort Cloud, its beautiful and complex ion tail is a remarkable shade of blue. Still relatively far from the Sun, the comet&#8217;s already well-developed ion tail is very impressive. Emission from unusually abundant ionized carbon monoxide (CO+) atoms fluorescing in the increasing sunlight is largely responsible for the pretty blue tint. This color image of the blue comet is a combination of data taken from two different telescopes during the night of January 7. Located at the apex of the V-shaped Hyades star cluster in Taurus, bright star Gamma Tauri is responsible for the glow at the bottom left corner of the frame. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2qQZf39\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered with the PanSTARRS telescope on September 7, 2016, this Comet PanSTARRS, C\/2016 R2, is presently about 24 light minutes (3 AU) from the Sun, sweeping through planet Earth&#8217;s skies <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13939\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-13939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}