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Discovery Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered on July 23, 1995 independently by amateur astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp of the USA. At the time, the comet was [...]
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“Comet LoveJoy as captured by Gerald Rhemann in Namibia.”
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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…
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Your source for curated space investment news.
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This painting features a comet passing over some distant planet along a path to who knows where.
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NASA's Meteor Watch Facebook page confirms the big bang theory that the large boom heard over Pittsburgh was a meteor.
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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 Hale–Bopp…
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