{"id":28896,"date":"2022-01-10T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=28896"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:12:04","slug":"ever-wondered-why-the-head-of-a-comet-is-green-but-not-the-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=28896","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered why the head of a comet is green but not the tail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ever wondered why the head of a comet is green but not the tail? We show how the fluorescent green C2 molecules are destroyed by sunlight, proving Herzberg mostly right. w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kable_scott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kable_scott<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNSWChemSociety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNSWChemSociety<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNSWScience?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNSWScience<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Livermore_Lab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Livermore_Lab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3mxQhkwZ6\">https:\/\/t.co\/S3mxQhkwZ6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prof. Tim Schmidt (@schmidtim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schmidtim\/status\/1473030581873041411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomie","category-physique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28897,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896\/revisions\/28897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}