{"id":109779,"date":"2020-07-10T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T23:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/parker-solar-probe-spies-newly-discovered-comet-neowise"},"modified":"2020-07-10T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T23:43:50","slug":"parker-solar-probe-spies-newly-discovered-comet-neowise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/parker-solar-probe-spies-newly-discovered-comet-neowise","title":{"rendered":"Parker Solar Probe Spies Newly-Discovered Comet NEOWISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parker-solar-probe-spies-newly-discovered-comet-neowise2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet #NEOWISE on July 5. Parker Solar Probe\u2019s position in space gave the spacecraft an unmatched view of the comet\u2019s twin tails when it was particularly active just after its closest approach to the Sun, called perihelion. <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3fkqTdm\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3fkqTdm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first image is unprocessed data from Parker Solar Probe\u2019s WISPR instrument, which takes images of the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere and solar wind in visible light.<\/p>\n<p>The twin tails of comet NEOWISE are seen more clearly in the second image. This version of the image has been processed to increase contrast and remove excess brightness from scattered sunlight, revealing more detail in the comet tails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet #NEOWISE on July 5. Parker Solar Probe\u2019s position in space gave the spacecraft an unmatched view of the comet\u2019s twin tails when it was particularly active just after its closest approach to the Sun, called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}