{"id":532,"date":"2025-04-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:44:14","slug":"this-weird-planet-sports-a-giant-tail-like-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/this-weird-planet-sports-a-giant-tail-like-a-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"This weird planet sports a giant tail like a comet"},"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\/04\/this-weird-planet-sports-a-giant-tail-like-a-comet_rezy.640.jpg\">Here&#x27;s why astronomers are excited.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a <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> that stretches up to 5.5 million miles in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u>. <\/p>\n<p>This strange <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/42912\/the-strange-new-worlds-scientists-have-discovered-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exoplanet<\/a><\/u>, located 140 <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-long-is-a-light-year\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light-years<\/a><\/u> away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#x27;s why astronomers are excited. Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with a debris trail like a comet that stretches up to 5.5 million miles in space. This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":534,"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\/532"}],"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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}