{"id":599369,"date":"2019-03-29T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=417e84f536e526d16e8a5c3a7c1bf5b5"},"modified":"2019-03-29T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T09:02:00","slug":"hubble-captures-rare-active-asteroid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=599369","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Captures Rare Active Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2019\/03\/hubble_captures_rare_active_asteroid\/19323889-1-eng-GB\/Hubble_Captures_Rare_Active_Asteroid_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe asteroid 6478 Gault is seen with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showing two narrow, comet-like tails of debris that tell us that the asteroid is slowly undergoing self-destruction. The bright streaks surrounding the asteroid are background stars. The Gault asteroid is located 214 million miles from the Sun, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more about this asteroid <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/61244-hubble-captures-rare-active-asteroid-heic1906\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid 6478 Gault is seen with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showing two narrow, comet-like tails of debris that tell us that the asteroid is slowly undergoing self-destruction. The bright streaks surrounding the asteroid are b&#8230;<\/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-599369","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\/599369","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=599369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599370,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599369\/revisions\/599370"}],"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=599369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}