Comets

Guess which 2 celestial objects are within our Milky Way galaxy

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, Bob Franke]

Comet C/2014 S2 (PanSTARRS) poses for a Messier moment in this telescopic… Continue reading →

Comet dust over central Texas

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, Jared Tennant

Dusty debris from periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle was swept up by planet Earth… Continue reading →

New comet makes the scene, just after sunset

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, Yuri Beletsky (Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution)]

A comet has brightened quickly and unexpectedly.… Continue reading →

Lovejoy, the giant, green comet

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Deep Sky Colors

Sweeping north in planet Earth’s sky, Comet Lovejoy’s… Continue reading →

Spectacular Comet Lovejoy, a dirty snowball, outshines M79 star cluster

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, Dieter Willasch (Astro-Cabinet)]

Comet Lovejoy has become visible to the unaided eye ….

Pictured… Continue reading →

European probe lands successfully on comet 67P

Rosetta’s probe, Philae, has successfully landed on its comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

After a daring seven-hour descent, the probe has… Continue reading →

Comet 67P, up close and personal

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION / ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team; MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin… Continue reading →

Perth spectacular: Cosmic, earthly and manmade

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION / credit: Antti Kemppainen

Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town.… Continue reading →

An apocalypse that wiped out the dinosaur threat to us humans

The demise of the dinosaurs is the world’s ultimate whodunit. Was it a comet or asteroid impact? Volcanic eruptions? Climate… Continue reading →