{"id":885203,"date":"2026-01-15T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/interstellar-comet-keeps-its-distance-as-it-makes-its-closest-approach-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:24","slug":"interstellar-comet-keeps-its-distance-as-it-makes-its-closest-approach-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/interstellar-comet-keeps-its-distance-as-it-makes-its-closest-approach-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar comet keeps its distance as it makes its closest approach to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I\/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometres) of our planet on Friday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/news\/world\/interstellar-comet-makes-its-closest-approach-to-earth\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I\/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometres) of our planet on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25301,22567,192],"tags":[13393,12919],"class_list":{"0":"post-885203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comet","8":"category-interstellar","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-comet","11":"tag-interstellar"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}