{"id":34487,"date":"2021-10-15T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34487"},"modified":"2021-10-15T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:47:36","slug":"the-wonder-of-other-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/15\/the-wonder-of-other-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonder Of Other Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> has a report<\/a> on something blowing its top:<\/p>\n

So you think you know what a comet is? Think again. Comet 29P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann is challenging old ideas. Astronomers call it a comet, but, really, “giant space volcano” might be a better description. It’s a 60-km-wide ball of ice orbiting the Sun beyond Jupiter, and it appears to be one of the most volcanically active bodies in the entire Solar System.<\/p>\n

Comet 29P just blew its top … again. In late September 2021, 29P erupted four times in quick succession, blowing shells of “cryomagma” into space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And has anyone informed the conspiracy theorists?<\/p>\n

When this object was discovered in 1927, astronomers thought they had found a fairly run-of-the-mill comet, unusual mainly because it was trapped in\u00a0a nearly circular orbit<\/a>\u00a0between Jupiter and Saturn. 29P quickly proved them wrong as it began to erupt over and over again. Modern observations show that outbursts are happening as often as 20 times a year.<\/p>\n

“The current outburst, which began on Sept. 25th, appears to be the most energetic of the past 40 years,” says Dr. Richard Miles of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). “Within a span of only 56 hours, four eruptions took place in quick succession, creating a ‘superoutburst.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the link for the explanation why. So cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spaceweather.com has a report on something blowing its top: So you think you know what a comet is? Think again. Comet 29P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann is challenging old ideas. Astronomers call it a comet, but, really, “giant space volcano” might be a better description. It’s a 60-km-wide ball of ice orbiting the Sun \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34488,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34487\/revisions\/34488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}