{"id":25863,"date":"2024-04-08T04:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25863"},"modified":"2024-04-08T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T04:56:45","slug":"25863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25863","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2404\/Comet12pTails_ShengyuLi_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> How does a comet tail change? It depends on the comet. The ion tail of Comet 12P\/Pons\u00e2\u20ac\u201cBrooks has been changing markedly, as detailed in the featured image sequenced over nine days from March 6 to 14 (top to bottom). On some days, the comet&#8217;s ion tail was relatively long and complex, but not every day. Reasons for tail changes include the rate of ejection of material from the comet&#8217;s nucleus, the strength and complexity of the passing solar wind, and the rotation rate of the comet. Over the course of a week, apparent changes even include a change of perspective from the Earth. In general, a comet&#8217;s ion tail will point away from the Sun, as gas expelled is pushed out by the Sun&#8217;s wind. Today, Pons-Brooks may become a rare comet suddenly visible in the middle of the day for those able to see the Sun totally eclipsed by the Moon. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240408.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a comet tail change? It depends on the comet. The ion tail of Comet 12P\/Pons\u00e2\u20ac\u201cBrooks has been changing markedly, as detailed in the featured image sequenced over nine <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25863\" 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-25863","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\/25863","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=25863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25864,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25863\/revisions\/25864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}