{"id":87756,"date":"2019-02-14T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/dont-miss-this-newly-discovered-bright-green-comet-streaking-past-earth-this-week"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:02:43","slug":"dont-miss-this-newly-discovered-bright-green-comet-streaking-past-earth-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/dont-miss-this-newly-discovered-bright-green-comet-streaking-past-earth-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Miss This Newly Discovered, Bright Green Comet Streaking Past Earth This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-miss-this-newly-discovered-bright-green-comet-streaking-past-earth-this-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth is getting a special celestial visitor this week in the shape of comet C\/2018 Y1 Iwamoto \u2014 this sparkling, green-hued hunk of ice and minerals is already visible in the night sky through telescopes and even binoculars.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first binocular comet of 2019 \u2013 which means a comet that\u2019s visible from Earth through binoculars, as you might have guessed from the name; we only get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cometwatch.co.uk\/bright-comets-of-2018\/\">a few of them<\/a> each year.<\/p>\n<p>This particular comet was only discovered a couple of months ago \u2013 credit due to amateur astronomer Masayuki Iwamoto \u2013 and the icy rock is calculated to take 1,371 years to orbit the Sun on a stretched out, elliptical path.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/don-t-miss-this-bright-green-comet-streaking-past-earth-this-week\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/don-t-miss-this-bright-green-co...-this-week<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is getting a special celestial visitor this week in the shape of comet C\/2018 Y1 Iwamoto \u2014 this sparkling, green-hued hunk of ice and minerals is already visible in the night sky through telescopes and even binoculars. It\u2019s the first binocular comet of 2019 \u2013 which means a comet that\u2019s visible from Earth through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87756","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}