{"id":31804,"date":"2022-05-24T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=31804"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:16:44","slug":"comet-has-the-biggest-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/2022\/05\/24\/comet-has-the-biggest-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet has the biggest heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image bild\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1585\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dj9jqhxgw9833.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-31803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87.jpg 1585w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-1024x441.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-1536x662.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1585px) 100vw, 1585px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>While comets are <\/strong>best known for their tails, which can arc for millions of kilometres across the Solar System, their icy cores are usually only a few kilometres across. However, Hubble has revealed that a gargantuan comet is currently making its way through the Solar System, after recent observations showed the icy heart of C\/2014 UN271 is over<span> 135km across \u2013 making it the largest comet nucleus known.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">Comets are the icy leftovers of planet formation that have survived on the outskirts of our Solar System. Those with long periods, such as this one \u2013 which takes three million years to orbit the Sun \u2013 are thought to originate from the hypothetical Oort Cloud, which is too far away to see directly.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">\u201cThis comet is the tip of the iceberg for thousands of comets that are too faint to see in the more distant parts of the Solar System,\u201d says David Jewitt from the University of California, who took part in the study. \u201cWe suspected this comet had to be big because it is so bright at such a large distance. Now we confirm it is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hubblesite.org\">https:\/\/hubblesite.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footer\">NASA\/ESA\/ZENA LEVY (STSCI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While comets are best known for their tails, which can arc for millions of kilometres across the Solar System, their icy cores are usually only a few kilometres across. However, Hubble has revealed that a gargantuan comet is currently making its way through the Solar System, after recent observations showed the icy heart of C\/2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","purple_page_number":"13","purple_custom_meta_purple_page_number":"13","purple_seq_number":"2","purple_custom_meta_purple_seq_number":"2","purple_source_article":"article_13-2.xml","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_article":"article_13-2.xml","purple_source_issue":"June-2022","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_issue":"June-2022","purple_external_id":"June-2022-13-2","purple_custom_meta_purple_external_id":"June-2022-13-2","purple_issue_code":"|0000086553||","purple_custom_meta_purple_issue_code":"|0000086553||","purple_android_product":"com.im.skyatnight.205","purple_custom_meta_purple_android_product":"com.im.skyatnight.205","purple_ios_product":"com.im.skyatnight.205","purple_custom_meta_purple_ios_product":"com.im.skyatnight.205","purple_web_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_web_product":"","purple_publication_id":"075fab74-0a21-4201-866a-899d6c41c40c","purple_migrated":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[14],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1","apple_news_title":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87.jpg",1585,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-300x129.jpg",300,129,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-768x331.jpg",768,331,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-1024x441.jpg",800,345,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87-1536x662.jpg",1536,662,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/fdbbbd9d-340d-4e2f-bbc2-5af262e0ff87.jpg",1585,683,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"While comets are best known for their tails, which can arc for millions of kilometres across the Solar System, their icy cores are usually only a few kilometres across. 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