Comet.<\/p>\n
Say the word, and it sounds magical. I can almost<\/i> hear Carl Sagan in my head, talking comets and the cosmic mysteries of the universe.<\/p>\n
Then I read this — a NASA solar probe photographed a comet losing its tail to a solar storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n Maybe we should rename the comet. Call it “Comet Eeyore,” as Eeyore, too, lost his tail. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comet. Say the word, and it sounds magical. I can almost hear Carl Sagan in my head, talking comets and the cosmic mysteries of the universe. Then I read this — a NASA solar probe photographed a comet losing its tail to a solar storm. Maybe we should rename the comet. Call it “Comet Eeyore,”Continue reading “On Cometary Niftiness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[4111],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}