{"id":714503,"date":"2022-01-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=714503"},"modified":"2022-01-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:00:00","slug":"stereo-a-watches-comet-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=714503","title":{"rendered":"STEREO-A watches Comet Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/STEREO-A_watches_Comet_Leonard_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Heliospheric Imager (HI) instrument on NASA\u2019s STEREO-A satellite has been watching comet Leonard since early November 2021, and was well-placed to capture images of the comet as it brightened in December. These very sensitive cameras observed the comet\u2019s extremely long ion tail interacting with the solar wind and solar outflows, providing valuable context for the Solar Orbiter observations.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/01\/STEREO-A_watches_Comet_Leonard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">STEREO-A watches Comet Leonard<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heliospheric Imager (HI) instrument on NASA\u2019s STEREO-A satellite has been watching comet Leonard since early November 2021, and was well-placed to capture images of the comet as it brightened&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714504,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714503","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\/714503","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=714503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/714504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}