{"id":906490,"date":"2026-05-17T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/rip-comet-maps-watch-the-superbright-sungrazer-become-a-headless-wonder-after-being-ripped-apart-by-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:17:38","slug":"rip-comet-maps-watch-the-superbright-sungrazer-become-a-headless-wonder-after-being-ripped-apart-by-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/rip-comet-maps-watch-the-superbright-sungrazer-become-a-headless-wonder-after-being-ripped-apart-by-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;RIP, Comet MAPS&#8217;: Watch the superbright sungrazer become a &#8216;headless wonder&#8217; after being ripped apart by the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New images show the sungrazer comet C\/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive its close approach to our home star. Instead, the celestial object briefly turned into a &#8220;headless wonder&#8221; before fully disintegrating&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/comets\/rip-comet-maps-watch-the-superbright-sungrazer-become-a-headless-wonder-after-being-ripped-apart-by-the-sun\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Randy Ramage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New images show the sungrazer comet C\/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive its close approach to our home star. Instead, the celestial object briefly turned into a &#8220;headless wonder&#8221; before fully disintegrating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25301,48082,192],"tags":[13393,5154],"class_list":{"0":"post-906490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comet","8":"category-maps","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-comet","11":"tag-maps"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906490","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=906490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}