{"id":38345,"date":"2022-06-10T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=38345"},"modified":"2022-06-10T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:24:13","slug":"a-giant-from-ancient-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/a-giant-from-ancient-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giant From&nbsp;Ancient Times"},"content":{"rendered":"Astronomers have discovered a giant comet that points to both the past and future - it could shed light on the origin of life, but it is also a cosmic image of human enterprise.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNot infrequently, it is coincidences that lead to discoveries. This is also the case here. Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein searched for minor planets beyond Neptune's orbit. For this purpose, they used large-scale images out of the Dark Survey Project from the telescopes in the Atacama Desert in Chile. In a photograph from October 20, 2014, they found a mysterious phenomenon - a diffuse, glowing dot changed its location from one image to the next. The Hubble telescope and other highly sensitive astronomical light catchers gave researchers certainty: it was a comet \u2013 a comet of unique pro<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a giant comet that points to both the past and future &#8211; it could shed light on the origin of life, but it is also a cosmic image of human enterprise. Not infrequently, it is coincidences that lead to discoveries. This is also the case here. Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein searched for minor planets beyond Neptune&#8217;s orbit. For this purpose, they used large-scale images out of the Dark Survey Project from the telescopes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":38195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8844,8789],"tags":[10375,8824],"class_list":["post-38345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-astronomy","category-research","tag-2022-20-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}