comets
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Brace Yourself for the E3 Comet’s Closest Approach to Earth
Get excited, space enthusiasts. A long-period comet discovered in March 2022 has recently brightened in the night sky, just in time for its closest approach to Earth in a few weeks. Once it passes us by, it won’t return again for tens of thousands of years.
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How (and When) to Watch the Massive K2 Comet Pass Earth
The comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) — or “K2″ for short — was first spotted five years ago, in May 2017 by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA reports. The agency shared an image of the comet taken on June 20th, 2022, when it was (relatively) near open star cluster IC 4665 and bright star Beta Ophiuchi,…
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Europe’s Space Agency Needs You to Find the Differences Between These Pictures
The Rosetta spacecraft collected tons of data on one comet. It’s up to you to decipher it.
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RIP Comet Leonard, a Bright Visitor in a Dark Time
Leonard will not be making its next 80,000-year-long journey around the Sun, as the mile-wide comet appears to have disintegrated in late February.