{"id":218416,"date":"2013-12-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"52fe9d240d6ec4fefce0c1bb83f82da9"},"modified":"2013-12-01T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:00:00","slug":"when-ice-meets-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218416","title":{"rendered":"When ice meets fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/11\/when_ice_meets_fire\/13432988-1-eng-GB\/When_ice_meets_fire_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nComet ISON\u2019s brush with the Sun as seen by the ESA\/NASA SOHO satellite 27\u201330 November 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nISON made its closest approach to the Sun during the evening of 28 November, passing just 1.2 million kilometres from the Sun\u2019s visible surface. At first the comet was thought to have disintegrated during its fiery encounter, with just a remnant of its tail continuing along ISON\u2019s trajectory. But, the next day, it seemed clear that something had survived after all \u2013 possibly a small chunk of ISON\u2019s nucleus, along with a lot of dust. This progressively faded as it edged towards SOHO\u2019s field of view on 30 November. Over the coming weeks scientists will be analysing the data collected during ISON\u2019s encounter with the Sun to decipher the nail-biting chain of events that took place.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe shaded disc at the centre of the image is a mask in SOHO\u2019s LASCO instrument that blots out direct sunlight to allow study of the faint details in the Sun&#8217;s corona. The white circle added within the disc shows the size and position of the visible Sun. The images in this sequence coloured blue are from SOHO\u2019s LASCO C3 instrument, which images the corona from about 3.5 solar radii to 30 solar radii; those in red are from LASCO C2, which images the corona from about 1.5 solar radii to 6 solar radii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/11\/when_ice_meets_fire\/13432988-1-eng-GB\/When_ice_meets_fire_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nComet ISON\u2019s brush with the Sun as seen by the ESA\/NASA SOHO satellite 27\u201330 November 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nISON made its closest approach to the Sun during the evening of 28 November, passing just 1.2 million kilometres from the Sun\u2019s visible surface. At first the comet was thought to have disintegrated during its fiery encounter, with just a remnant of its tail continuing along ISON\u2019s trajectory. But, the next day, it seemed clear that something had survived after all \u2013 possibly a small chunk of ISON\u2019s nucleus, along with a lot of dust. This progressively faded as it edged towards SOHO\u2019s field of view on 30 November. Over the coming weeks scientists will be analysing the data collected during ISON\u2019s encounter with the Sun to decipher the nail-biting chain of events that took place.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe shaded disc at the centre of the image is a mask in SOHO\u2019s LASCO instrument that blots out direct sunlight to allow study of the faint details in the Sun&#8217;s corona. The white circle added within the disc shows the size and position of the visible Sun. The images in this sequence coloured blue are from SOHO\u2019s LASCO C3 instrument, which images the corona from about 3.5 solar radii to 30 solar radii; those in red are from LASCO C2, which images the corona from about 1.5 solar radii to 6 solar radii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369757,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218416\/revisions\/369757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}