{"id":3923403,"date":"2026-01-02T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-interstellar-comet-thats-spilling-its-secrets\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:03:43","slug":"the-interstellar-comet-thats-spilling-its-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-interstellar-comet-thats-spilling-its-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"The interstellar comet that&#8217;s spilling its secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When 3I\/ATLAS swept past the sun in late October 2025, it became only the third confirmed visitor from interstellar space ever detected. Unlike the mysterious &#8216;Oumuamua, which revealed almost nothing about itself during its brief flyby in 2017, or even 2I\/Borisov which appeared in 2019, this latest interstellar traveler arrived with perfect timing for detailed study.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-interstellar-comet-secrets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 3I\/ATLAS swept past the sun in late October 2025, it became only the third confirmed visitor from interstellar space ever detected. Unlike the mysterious &#8216;Oumuamua, which revealed almost nothing about itself during its brief flyby in 2017, or even 2I\/Borisov which appeared in 2019, this latest interstellar traveler arrived with perfect timing for detailed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}