{"id":3928606,"date":"2026-10-27T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-links-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-to-worlds-beyond-neptune-through-similar-ice-signatures\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:03:04","slug":"webb-links-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-to-worlds-beyond-neptune-through-similar-ice-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-links-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-to-worlds-beyond-neptune-through-similar-ice-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb links interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS to worlds beyond Neptune through similar ice signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Southwest Research Institute\u2013led study used NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS, just the third object from beyond our solar system ever identified. The observations point to tiny aggregates of water ice and dust, about a micron or smaller.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-webb-links-interstellar-comet-3iatlas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwest Research Institute\u2013led study used NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS, just the third object from beyond our solar system ever identified. The observations point to tiny aggregates of water ice and dust, about a micron or smaller. <\/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-3928606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928606","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=3928606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}