{"id":3928648,"date":"2026-10-29T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/enormous-cats-tail-tells-of-cosmic-collision-63-light-years-away\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:05:23","slug":"enormous-cats-tail-tells-of-cosmic-collision-63-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/enormous-cats-tail-tells-of-cosmic-collision-63-light-years-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Enormous &#8216;Cat&#8217;s Tail&#8217; tells of cosmic collision 63 light-years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for &#8220;painter&#8221;), there lies a strange structure that has puzzled astronomers for the last two years. Nicknamed the &#8220;Cat&#8217;s Tail,&#8221; this dark feature stretches across an abyss of space about a thousand times the average distance between Earth and the sun.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-enormous-cat-tail-cosmic-collision.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for &#8220;painter&#8221;), there lies a strange structure that has puzzled astronomers for the last two years. Nicknamed the &#8220;Cat&#8217;s Tail,&#8221; this dark feature stretches across an abyss of space about a thousand times the average distance between Earth and the [&#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-3928648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928648","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=3928648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}