{"id":653430,"date":"2020-04-29T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=653430"},"modified":"2020-04-29T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:24:00","slug":"hubble-captures-breakup-of-comet-atlas-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=653430","title":{"rendered":"Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS (animated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the comet on 20 April and 25 pieces on 23 April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comet was first discovered in December 2019 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) and its fragmentation was confirmed in April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Learn more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sci.esa.int\/web\/hubble\/-\/hubble-captures-breakup-of-comet-atlas-heic2008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/04\/Hubble_captures_breakup_of_comet_ATLAS_animated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS (animated)<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the comet&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653430","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\/653430","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653430\/revisions"}],"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=653430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}