{"id":7019,"date":"2017-05-27T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2017-05-27T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:56:12","slug":"comet-clark-is-near-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=7019","title":{"rendered":"Comet Clark is near the Edge."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1705\/c71-Pclark_villaverdeV3C.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Sweeping through this stunning field of view, Comet 71P\/Clark really is in the foreground of these cosmic clouds. The 2 panel telescopic mosaic is color enhanced and is about 5 degrees (10 full moons) across. It captures the faint comet&#8217;s position on the night of May 23\/24 over 5 light-minutes from Earth, very near the line-of-sight to bright star Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. In the frame Antares, also known as Alpha Scorpii, is at bottom center surrounded by a dusty cosmic cloud reflecting the cool giant star&#8217;s yellowish light. Globular star cluster M4 shines just right of Antares, but M4 lies some 7,000 light-years away compared to Antares&#8217; 500 light-year distance. Slightly closer than Antares, Rho Ophiuchi&#8217;s bluish starlight is reflected by the dust in molecular clouds toward the top. You can spot the small coma and short tail of the comet as a faint smudge near the center of the left edge of the frame. Just look for the comet&#8217;s striking greenish color, produced as diatomic carbon molecules fluoresce in sunlight. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2qlBhbD\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeping through this stunning field of view, Comet 71P\/Clark really is in the foreground of these cosmic clouds. The 2 panel telescopic mosaic is color enhanced and is about 5 <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=7019\" 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-7019","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\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}