{"id":192542,"date":"2024-07-08T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/comet-13p-olbers-streaks-across-july-sky-how-skywatchers-can-view"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:24:33","slug":"comet-13p-olbers-streaks-across-july-sky-how-skywatchers-can-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/comet-13p-olbers-streaks-across-july-sky-how-skywatchers-can-view","title":{"rendered":"Comet 13P\/Olbers streaks across July sky: How skywatchers can view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/comet-13p-olbers-streaks-across-july-sky-how-skywatchers-can-view2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The night sky has a visiting comet flaunting its faint tail for stargazers this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The comet 13P\/Olbers will make its closest approach to Earth later this month, according to NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=3959\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The comet orbits the sun every 25,400 days. That\u2019s about every 70 years \u2013 69.54 to be exact. It was last be seen from Earth in 1956.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night sky has a visiting comet flaunting its faint tail for stargazers this summer. The comet 13P\/Olbers will make its closest approach to Earth later this month, according to NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The comet orbits the sun every 25,400 days. That\u2019s about every 70 years \u2013 69.54 to be exact. It was last [\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-192542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192542","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=192542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}