{"id":185631,"date":"2024-03-21T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/everest-sized-devil-comet-tonight-how-to-see-the-once-in-a-lifetime-2024-event"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:30:19","slug":"everest-sized-devil-comet-tonight-how-to-see-the-once-in-a-lifetime-2024-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/everest-sized-devil-comet-tonight-how-to-see-the-once-in-a-lifetime-2024-event","title":{"rendered":"Everest-sized \u2018Devil comet\u2019 tonight: How to see the once-in-a-lifetime 2024 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/everest-sized-devil-comet-tonight-how-to-see-the-once-in-a-lifetime-2024-event2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we speak, the comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks (Pons-Brooks, for short) is making its way around the inner region of the Solar System for the first time in more than 70 years \u2013 and might soon become visible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) across, this giant icy lump is comparable in size to Mount Everest, says astrophysicist <a href=\"https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/sci\/physics\/research\/astro\/people\/paulstrom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Paul Str\u00f8m<\/a>, and is \u201cone of the brightest known periodic comets\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Halley-type comet, Pons-Brooks completes its journey around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/the-sun\">the Sun<\/a> every 71.3 years and was last spotted in our skies in 1954.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we speak, the comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks (Pons-Brooks, for short) is making its way around the inner region of the Solar System for the first time in more than 70 years \u2013 and might soon become visible to the naked eye. At approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) across, this giant icy lump is comparable in size [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185631","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}