The comet

Not just any old comet, but Halley’s Comet! As my eight-year-old mind turned this unknown object over and over, how could I find it anything short of beautiful? Tutored by my father, I had just lea…

Cometa visto de estação espacial #AMAZINGPICTURES

Parts of a comet described along with their name and composition. Check out a labeled diagram.

There's a nice binocular comet - Comet NEOWISE - in the early morning sky now. Some experienced observers are catching it with the eye alone. It's nice ... but not great. When will we see our next Great Comet?

This painting features a comet passing over some distant planet along a path to who knows where.

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C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. At that time, it was an 18th-magnitude object, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth. NEOWISE is known for being the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet…

Captured on the night of January 2nd 2022. I managed to spend 20 minutes with this beautiful comet. The tail was clearly visible through my binoculars. This is a stack of 42x30s exposures, with a ZWO ASI294MC PRO.