{"id":3928825,"date":"2026-11-09T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/subaru-telescope-reveals-the-shape-and-temperature-of-comet-enckes-nucleus\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:05:47","slug":"subaru-telescope-reveals-the-shape-and-temperature-of-comet-enckes-nucleus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/subaru-telescope-reveals-the-shape-and-temperature-of-comet-enckes-nucleus\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaru Telescope reveals the shape and temperature of Comet Encke&#8217;s nucleus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mid-infrared observations with the Subaru Telescope have revealed the shape and surface temperature of the nucleus of Comet 2P\/Encke. By analyzing how the nucleus&#8217;s thermal emission changed as it rotated, the researchers found that the nucleus is elongated, with a long axis of about 7 kilometers and a short axis of about 3 kilometers. They also determined that the surface temperature at the time of observation was 328 \u00b1 7 Kelvin (about 55\u00b0C).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-subaru-telescope-reveals-temperature-comet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-infrared observations with the Subaru Telescope have revealed the shape and surface temperature of the nucleus of Comet 2P\/Encke. By analyzing how the nucleus&#8217;s thermal emission changed as it rotated, the researchers found that the nucleus is elongated, with a long axis of about 7 kilometers and a short axis of about 3 kilometers. They [&#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-3928825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928825","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=3928825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}