{"id":2577,"date":"2025-06-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:46:21","slug":"scientists-spotted-a-giant-comet-spewing-gas-2-billion-miles-from-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/scientists-spotted-a-giant-comet-spewing-gas-2-billion-miles-from-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists spotted a giant comet spewing gas 2 billion miles from sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/scientists-spotted-a-giant-comet-spewing-gas-2-billion-miles_fz4j.640.jpg\">Turns out Bernardinelli-Bernstein is an early riser.<\/p>\n<p>A strange, city-sized <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/35895\/what-are-comets-the-secret-lives-of-space-snowballs-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comet<\/a><\/u> seems to have woken up early as it drifts toward the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/57021\/the-suns-poles-have-flipped-a-spacecraft-is-watching-what-happens-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sun<\/a><\/u> \u2014 even though it&#8217;s still much farther than <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/54612\/on-saturns-moon-titan-life-might-be-tiny-reclusive-and-hard-to-find\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturn<\/a><\/u> in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Using a giant Chilean desert telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array, scientists got a detailed look \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Bernardinelli-Bernstein is an early riser. A strange, city-sized comet seems to have woken up early as it drifts toward the sun \u2014 even though it&#8217;s still much farther than Saturn in space. Using a giant Chilean desert telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array, scientists got a detailed look \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}