{"id":3829,"date":"2025-07-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:43:35","slug":"astronomers-think-newly-discovered-comet-may-be-way-older-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/astronomers-think-newly-discovered-comet-may-be-way-older-than-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers think newly discovered comet may be way older than the 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\/07\/astronomers-think-newly-discovered-comet-may-be-way-older-th_ghaz.640.jpg\">Comet ATLAS may be loaded with water ice.<\/p>\n<p>A giant <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> spotted days ago hurtling through the solar system may be the most ancient one ever seen \u2014 and may be loaded with frozen water.<\/p>\n<p>The icy traveler, called <a href=\"https:\/\/minorplanetcenter.net\/mpec\/K25\/K25N12.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3I\/ATLAS<\/a> or <u><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/planet4589\/status\/1940580182265561361\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comet ATLAS<\/a><\/u>, was discovered on July 1 by the <u>&lt;a \u2026<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet ATLAS may be loaded with water ice. A giant comet spotted days ago hurtling through the solar system may be the most ancient one ever seen \u2014 and may be loaded with frozen water. The icy traveler, called 3I\/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the &lt;a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3831,"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\/3829"}],"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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}