{"id":26422,"date":"2023-01-30T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26422"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:10:09","slug":"26422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26422","title":{"rendered":"A LARGE COMET IS STREAKING TOWARD THE SUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b>Space Weather News for Jan. 30, 2023<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=26643e2737&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/spaceweather.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=91a8552c30&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com<\/a><b>A LARGE COMET IS STREAKING TOWARD THE SUN:<\/b> This is no ordinary flyby. Comet 96P\/Machholz is streaking toward the sun for a close encounter deep inside the orbit of Mercury. 96P is unlike any other comet in the solar system, and surprises are possible when it feels the heat. Full story @ <a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=3c6998ebb4&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Spaceweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=ab9f2d7870&amp;e=de6f94dc30\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d\/images\/adc8a7d6-e9da-7562-977e-26a4abfd114c.jpg\" alt=\"[]\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=ab9f2d7870&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Above:<\/b> A SOHO coronagraph image of Comet 96P\/Machholz approaching the sun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for Jan. 30, 2023 https:\/\/spaceweather.com https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.comA LARGE COMET IS STREAKING TOWARD THE SUN: This is no ordinary flyby. Comet 96P\/Machholz is streaking toward the sun for a close encounter deep inside the orbit of Mercury. 96P is unlike any other comet in the solar system, and surprises are possible when it feels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A LARGE COMET IS STREAKING TOWARD THE SUN<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-26422","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\/26422","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=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26430,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions\/26430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}