Comets
Beautiful Comet ISON Timelapse and Recent Images
This beautiful new view of Comet ISON comes from a collaborative effort between astrophotographers Cliff Spohn in Ohio and Terry…
Comet LINEAR Suddenly Brightens with Outburst: How to See It
It’s swiftly becoming an “all comets, all the time” sort of observing season. The cyber-ink was barely dry on our…
How to See This Season’s “Other” Comet: 2P/Encke
2013 may well go down as “The Year of the Comet.” After over a decade punctuated by only sporadic bright…
Hubble’s Latest View Shows Comet ISON Still Intact, Fairly Average
We’ve been showing images of Comet ISON from amateur astronomers around the world, but now that NASA is back from…
Latest Images of Comet ISON Show it is ‘Doing Just Fine’
As we reported yesterday, the latest data on Comet ISON indicates there is some encouraging news as far as the…
New Data: Will Comet ISON Survive its Close Perihelion Passage?
It’s the question on every astronomer’s mind this season, both backyard and professional: will Comet C/2012 S1 ISON survive perihelion?…
This is Comet ISON Seen From Mars
It's not much to look at, but there it is: the incoming comet ISON (aka C/2012 S1) as seen by the…
Comet ISON and Mars Imaged Together During Close Approach
Comet ISON made its closest approach to Mars yesterday (October 1, 2013) at a distance of 10.5 million km (6.5…
Astrophoto: Comet LINEAR Meets a Spiral Galaxy
Just in from the pretty pictures department: Award-winning Astrophotographer Damian Peach from the UK took this gorgeous image this morning…
Comet ISON Goes Green
As NASA and the European Space Agency prepare their remote photojournalists - Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Curiosity…