{"id":220065,"date":"2025-08-14T03:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/our-solar-system-has-a-new-visitor-interstellar-comet-could-be-nearly-as-old-as-the-galaxy-itself"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:23:57","slug":"our-solar-system-has-a-new-visitor-interstellar-comet-could-be-nearly-as-old-as-the-galaxy-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/our-solar-system-has-a-new-visitor-interstellar-comet-could-be-nearly-as-old-as-the-galaxy-itself","title":{"rendered":"Our Solar System Has a New Visitor: Interstellar Comet Could Be Nearly As Old as the Galaxy Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-solar-system-has-a-new-visitor-interstellar-comet-could-be-nearly-as-old-as-the-galaxy-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of astronomers from around the world, including a doctoral student from the University of Michigan, were the first to report the discovery of the third confirmed interstellar object<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of astronomers from around the world, including a doctoral student from the University of Michigan, were the first to report the discovery of the third confirmed interstellar object<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220065","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}