{"id":26351,"date":"2023-01-19T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26351"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:58:24","slug":"the-sun-just-broke-a-comets-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26351","title":{"rendered":"THE SUN JUST BROKE A COMET’S TAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Space Weather News for Jan. 18, 2023
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THE SUN JUST BROKE A COMET’S TAIL:<\/b> Comet ZTF (C\/2022 E3) is approaching Earth and giving astronomers a better look at its tail. Surprise: It’s broken. A ‘disconnection event’ is in progress, probably caused by a CME hitting the comet. More of these events are likely to be seen as the comet approaches Earth for a close encounter on Feb. 1st. Full story @ Spaceweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAbove:<\/b> A disconnection event in the tail of Comet ZTF (C\/2022 E3) on Jan. 17th. Credit: Michael Jaeger<\/div>\n

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Space Weather News for Jan. 18, 2023 https:\/\/spaceweather.com https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com THE SUN JUST BROKE A COMET’S TAIL: Comet ZTF (C\/2022 E3) is approaching Earth and giving astronomers a better look at its tail. Surprise: It’s broken. A ‘disconnection event’ is in progress, probably caused by a CME hitting the comet. More of these events are likely … Continue reading THE SUN JUST BROKE A COMET’S TAIL<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-26351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-comet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26352,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions\/26352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}