{"id":127998,"date":"2021-09-23T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/monster-comet-falling-toward-the-sun-is-bigger-than-a-martian-moon"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:22:53","slug":"monster-comet-falling-toward-the-sun-is-bigger-than-a-martian-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/monster-comet-falling-toward-the-sun-is-bigger-than-a-martian-moon","title":{"rendered":"Monster comet falling toward the sun is bigger than a Martian moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monster-comet-falling-toward-the-sun-is-bigger-than-a-martian-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/monster-comet-discovered-falling-toward-the-sun-may-be-biggest-ever\/\">two astronomers discovered what could be the largest comet ever seen<\/a> in the solar system while combing through data collected by the Dark Energy Survey. Now, a new study led by the same scientists describes this beefy deep space monster as the \u201cnearly spherical cow of comets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comet is cataloged as Comet C\/2014 UN271 but is also known as Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein for its discovery duo, Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, both from the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Unlock the biggest mysteries of our planet and beyond with the CNET Science newsletter. Delivered Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, two astronomers discovered what could be the largest comet ever seen in the solar system while combing through data collected by the Dark Energy Survey. Now, a new study led by the same scientists describes this beefy deep space monster as the \u201cnearly spherical cow of comets.\u201d The comet is cataloged as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127998","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}