comets

Comet captured streaking across Stonehenge night sky 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
A comet has been captured on camera streaking across the skies over Stonehenge.

By David Aragorn
A Surprise Comet Is Coming to Put on a Spectacular Sky Show — and It Won’t Be Visible Again for Over 6,000 Years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 7, 2020
A comet named C/2020 is expected to be visible from Earth at various points throughout July.

By David Aragorn
INTRODUCING COMET SWAN 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2020
Warning: This story may give you a sense of déjà vu.

By David Aragorn
Newfound Comet ATLAS is getting really bright, really fast 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 24, 2020
For years, amateur astronomers have been waiting for a bright, naked-eye comet to pass by Earth — and finally, such an object may have arrived.

By David Aragorn
Comet 67P Repeatedly Changed Colour During the Historic Rosetta Mission 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 8, 2020
A review of data taken over the course of the two-year Rosetta mission shows that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was sometimes reddish in appearance, while at other times it assumed a bluish hue. Sounds weird, but scientists have come up with a sensible explanation that doesn’t involve aliens with paint guns.

By David Aragorn
First identified comet to visit our solar system from another star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2019
Interstellar comet 2I — Borisov swings past sun

By David Aragorn
Astronomers See Stars Slinging Comets at Earth for the First Time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 6, 2019
Stars and comets make unlikely dance partners. Their gravitational partnership is one that astronomers have long suspected but have never seen — until now. For the first time, a Polish group has identified two nearby stars that seem to have plucked up their icy partners, swinging them into orbits around our sun.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2019
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice and gases during the close approach of comet 46P/Wirtanen in late 2018. This is the most complete and detailed observation to date of the formation and dissipation of a naturally-occurring comet outburst. The team members reported their results in the November 22 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

By David Aragorn
Interstellar Comet Borisov is surprisingly familiar in latest Hubble pics 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 18, 2019
Wednesday, October 16th 2019, 5:00 pm – Hubble zooms in on our latest intersellar visitor

By David Aragorn
Confirmed: Comet Borisov Is Another Interstellar Visitor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 26, 2019
The first-ever comet from beyond our solar system, as imaged by the Gemini Observatory. The image of the newly discovered object, named 2I/Borisov, was taken on the night of Sept. 9-10, 2019 using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North Telescope from Hawaii’s Mauna Kea

By David Aragorn