{"id":711852,"date":"2021-12-20T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711852"},"modified":"2021-12-20T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:06:58","slug":"comets-heads-can-be-green-but-never-their-tails-after-90-years-we-finally-know-why-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711852","title":{"rendered":"Comets\u2019 heads can be green, but never their tails. After 90 years, we finally know why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study has solved a 90-year-old mystery by proving the mechanism by which dicarbon &#8212; the chemical that makes some comets&#8217; heads green &#8212; is broken up by sunlight. This explains why the vibrant green color never reaches the comet&#8217;s tail.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/12\/211220190658.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Comets\u2019 heads can be green, but never their tails. After 90 years, we finally know why<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has solved a 90-year-old mystery by proving the mechanism by which dicarbon &#8212; the chemical that makes some comets&#8217; heads green &#8212; is broken up by sunlight. This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711852","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=711852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711852\/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=711852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}