{"id":2302,"date":"2025-10-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:07:58","slug":"a-spacecraft-snagged-its-first-photo-of-an-interstellar-comet-see-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/a-spacecraft-snagged-its-first-photo-of-an-interstellar-comet-see-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"A spacecraft snagged its first photo of an interstellar comet. See it now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a-spacecraft-snagged-its-first-photo-of-an-interstellar-come_p28m.640.webp\">Excuse this alien snowball. It&#x27;s just passing through.<\/p>\n<p>As a visitor from another solar system made its closest approach to <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/60799\/mars-rock-discovery-makes-strongest-case-for-past-life-scientists-reveal\">Mars<\/a><\/u> on Friday, two spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet turned to look. <\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express took photos of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/60771\/scientists-snapped-new-photo-of-the-interstellar-comet-lighting-up\">interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a><\/u> as it passed within \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse this alien snowball. It&#x27;s just passing through. As a visitor from another solar system made its closest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}