{"id":721150,"date":"2022-04-13T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721150"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:17:21","slug":"the-hubble-telescope-confirms-the-largest-comet-nucleus-ever-seen-by-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=721150","title":{"rendered":"The Hubble telescope confirms the largest comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hubble_comet_c_2014_un271_wide-455d2edf0d699359cccd72a250850edadda718e8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The comet, known as C\/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has an estimated diameter of about 80 miles. That&#8217;s bigger than Rhode Island and about 50 times larger than the heart of most comets.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Space Telescope Science Institute\/Macau University of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/npr-rss-pixel-8.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/13\/1092535922\/hubble-telescope-comet-biggest-nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hubble telescope confirms the largest comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comet, known as C\/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has an estimated diameter of about 80 miles. That&#8217;s bigger than Rhode Island and about 50 times larger than the heart of most&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-721150","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\/721150","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=721150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721150\/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=721150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}