{"id":25089,"date":"2022-08-20T04:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25089"},"modified":"2022-08-20T04:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:56:54","slug":"stardust-and-comet-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25089","title":{"rendered":"Stardust and Comet Tails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2208\/C2017K2_220818_1050.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Heading for its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion, on December 19 comet C\/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) remains a sight for telescopic observers as it sweeps through planet Earth&#8217;s skies in the constellation Scorpius. The comet currently sports a greenish coma, long whitish dust tail, and short ion tail in this deep image from August 18. The 2&#215;3 degree wide field of view includes part of the dusty nebula IC 4592 reflecting blue starlight. Also known as the Blue Horsehead Nebula, IC 4592 is about 400 light-years distant while the comet is just under 17 light-minutes away. First spotted at a distance well beyond the orbit of Saturn C\/2017 K2 is on its maiden voyage to the inner solar system, a pristine visitor from the remote Oort cloud. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220820.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading for its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion, on December 19 comet C\/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) remains a sight for telescopic observers as it sweeps through planet Earth&#8217;s skies <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25089\" 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-25089","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\/25089","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=25089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25090,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions\/25090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}