{"id":30428,"date":"2024-03-12T15:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30428"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:49:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:49:43","slug":"a-spiral-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30428","title":{"rendered":"A SPIRAL COMET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b>Space Weather News for March 12, 2024<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=938d819435&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/spaceweather.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=ea546f6940&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A SPIRAL COMET:<\/b> Astronomers are monitoring Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks as it approaches the sun for a close encounter in April. Several amateurs have noticed something strange about the comet&#8217;s core: It&#8217;s a spiral. Full story @ <a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=8a0c5519e7&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Solar flare alerts:<\/b> Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=37e8489b4b&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Space Weather Alerts<\/a> to receive instant text messages when strong solar flares are underway<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=0367cb00c9&amp;e=de6f94dc30\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d\/images\/d54b4ca9-9bb1-d6e6-cdad-c93c4ba7dde8.jpg\" alt=\"[]\" width=\"521\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=0367cb00c9&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Above:<\/b> The spiral core of Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks photographed by Jan Erik Vallestad of Sunnfjord, Norway<\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for March 12, 2024 https:\/\/spaceweather.com https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com A SPIRAL COMET: Astronomers are monitoring Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks as it approaches the sun for a close encounter in April. Several amateurs have noticed something strange about the comet&#8217;s core: It&#8217;s a spiral. Full story @ Spaceweather.com. Solar flare alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=30428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A SPIRAL COMET<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-30428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news"],"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\/30428","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=30428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30429,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428\/revisions\/30429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}