Comet that hasn’t been seen for 80K years will be visible in the night sky. Here’s how to spot it
In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included ...
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Great Comets of the 1990s
The small photos of Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp in the initial color astrophoto montage do not do them justice. Here they have been reprocessed for a larger display. The photo of Comet ...
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The first comet to encounter a spacecraft
Then, there is comet Hyakutake. Discovered only in 1996, this comet’s passage near the Earth in the same year was one of the closest cometary approaches in nearly 200 years. We will be turning ...
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Some Color Astrophotos
10 min] Comet Hyakutake [180 mm, f/2.8, Fuji Super G 800, 8 min] North American Nebula [500 mm, f/4, Fuji Super HG 1600, 2 x 10 min, stacked; this photo was ENORMOUSLY improved by digital manipulation ...