{"id":3928495,"date":"2026-10-20T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-sun-may-have-stripped-away-meters-of-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:04:09","slug":"the-sun-may-have-stripped-away-meters-of-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-sun-may-have-stripped-away-meters-of-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun may have stripped away meters of interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS brought material from another planetary system within reach of our telescopes, but reading its chemistry poses a problem. Energetic particles encountered during its journey through space may have changed its outer layers, so how much of what astronomers detect still reflects the comet&#8217;s birthplace?<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-sun-meters-interstellar-comet-3iatlas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS brought material from another planetary system within reach of our telescopes, but reading its chemistry poses a problem. Energetic particles encountered during its journey through space may have changed its outer layers, so how much of what astronomers detect still reflects the comet&#8217;s birthplace? <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3928495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}