{"id":25777,"date":"2024-02-16T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25777"},"modified":"2024-02-16T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T05:56:44","slug":"structure-in-the-tail-of-comet-12p-pons-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25777","title":{"rendered":"Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P\/Pons Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2402\/12P_Pons_Brooks_2024_02_11_185335PST_JuneLake_DEBartlett800.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> Heading for its next perihelion passage on April 21, Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. The greenish coma of this periodic Halley-type comet has become relatively easy to observe in small telescopes. But the bluish ion tail now streaming from the active comet&#8217;s coma and buffeted by the solar wind, is faint and difficult to follow. Still, in this image stacked exposures made on the night of February 11 reveal the fainter tail&#8217;s detailed structures. The frame spans over two degrees across a background of faint stars and background galaxies toward the northern constellation Lacerta. Of course Comet 12P&#8217;s April 21 perihelion passage will be only two weeks after the April 8 total solar eclipse, putting the comet in planet Earth&#8217;s sky along with a totally eclipsed Sun. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240216.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading for its next perihelion passage on April 21, Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. The greenish coma of this periodic Halley-type comet has become relatively easy to observe in small <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25777\" 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-25777","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\/25777","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=25777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions\/25778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}