{"id":239523,"date":"2026-06-24T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas-is-bursting-with-an-unexpected-chemical"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:20:52","slug":"interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas-is-bursting-with-an-unexpected-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas-is-bursting-with-an-unexpected-chemical","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar Visitor 3I\/ATLAS Is Bursting With an Unexpected Chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas-is-bursting-with-an-unexpected-chemical2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found that interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS contains an unusually large amount of methanol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found that interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS contains an unusually large amount of methanol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-chemistry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239523","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=239523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}