Comets
Guest Post: Comet Kerfuffle
An image generated from Starry Night software of how Comet ISON may look on November 22, 2013 from the UK.…
New ‘Sun-Skirting’ Comet Could Provide Dazzling Display in 2013
2013 is looking to be a promising year for potential naked-eye comets, as a new comet has been discovered that…
Comet Pan-STARRS: How Bright Will it Get?
Comet PanSTARRS on September 4, 2012 as seen from Puerto Rico. Credit: Efrain Morales/Jaicoa Observatory. Early next year, a comet…
Asteroid Lutetia Flyby Animation
In today's Weekly Space Hangout, Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society mentioned an animation of recently released images from the…
Frantic Comet Massacre Taking Place at Fomalhaut
[/caption] There may be some frantic activity going on in the narrow, dusty disk surrounding a nearby star named Fomalhaut.…
Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole is Feasting on Asteroids
[/caption] For the past several years, the Chandra telescope has detected X-ray flares occurring about once a day from the…
Beautiful Conjunction: Comet Garradd Meets M92
This lovely image of Comet Garradd (C/2009 PI) as it passes by the globular cluster M92 in the constellation Hercules,…
Can We Land On a Comet?
The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way…
5 Hours of Beautiful Comet Lovejoy in 30 Seconds
Colin Legg from Esperance, Australia has been documenting Comet Lovejoy's holiday gift to the southern hemisphere, and this is his…
Stunning! Comet Lovejoy Photographed from the Space Station
[/caption] *Now updated with video!* We can't get enough of Comet Lovejoy! But this latest image is off the charts…