{"id":218635,"date":"2025-07-24T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/vera-rubin-observatory-unveils-first-high-res-images-of-3i-atlas-captured-days-before-astronomers-knew-it-existed"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:12:23","slug":"vera-rubin-observatory-unveils-first-high-res-images-of-3i-atlas-captured-days-before-astronomers-knew-it-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/vera-rubin-observatory-unveils-first-high-res-images-of-3i-atlas-captured-days-before-astronomers-knew-it-existed","title":{"rendered":"Vera Rubin Observatory Unveils First High-Res Images of 3I\/ATLAS\u2014Captured Days Before Astronomers Knew It Existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vera-rubin-observatory-unveils-first-high-res-images-of-3i-atlas-captured-days-before-astronomers-knew-it-existed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious new interstellar object, 3I\/ATLAS, was discovered in July. It turns out that wasn\u2019t the first time our telescopes spotted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious new interstellar object, 3I\/ATLAS, was discovered in July. It turns out that wasn\u2019t the first time our telescopes spotted it.<\/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-218635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218635","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=218635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}