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ATLAS Crumbles As New SWAN Comet Stirs Excitement
Once our hope of becoming a naked-eye object Comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4), seen here on April 9th, is fading as its nucleus fragments. Chris Schur You gotta love a comet. Wait. Let me rephrase. You gotta be...
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Bright Comet SWAN Will Soon Grace May Mornings
Radar image of 1998 OR2 taken by the Arecibo Observatory on April 18, 2020. Arecibo Observatory / NASA / NSF This morning (April 29) the large and bright asteroid 1998 OR2 will safely zip past Earth at...
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My Morning With Comet SWAN
Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) at 3:25 a.m. Wednesday morning, May 19 at the start of dawn from Duluth, Minn. The photo conveys how small the comet appeared in binoculars and also captures its blue-green color...
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Comet PanSTARRS Takes A Dip In The Dipper Bowl
Time exposure of Comet PanSTARRS (C/2017 T2) taken through an 8-inch telescope on May 29, 2020. North is up and west to the right. Alfons Diepvens Half the problem in observing astronomical objects is...
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Comet NEOWISE Heads North, May Become Visible With The Naked Eye
Although too close to the sun to see from the ground, the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has a special instrument called a coronagraph that can block the glaring sun and show stars...
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Comet NEOWISE Makes A Bright Appearance At Dawn — Come See!
A brightening dawn sky and thin clouds couldn’t keep Comet NEOWISE from appearing this morning around 3:45 a.m. low in the northeastern sky. The comet was very difficult to see in 10×50 binoculars...
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NEOWISE Basics— What Exactly Is A Comet Anyway?
Comet NEOWISE displays dust and gas tails (narrow streak) while cutting a beautiful figure in the northern sky at 11 p.m. July 16 near Duluth, Minn. Details: 35mm lens, f/2.8, ISO 800 and 30-second...
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See The Twin Messier Craters And A Curious Lunar ‘Comet’
Comet NEOWISE hangs low in the northwestern sky last night (July 24) during a brief outburst of the aurora around 11:45 p.m. Bob King I’ve lived the comet this month. You, too? After so many fainter...
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Last Shot For Comet NEOWISE
The full Ricing Moon rises over northwestern Wisconsin and Lake Superior as seen from Duluth’s Skyline Parkway on Aug. 2. Bob King The slightly-past full moon rises about a half-hour after sunset this...
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Hubble Eyes Comet NEOWISE In New Closeup
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this color closeup of comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE on August 8. Jets of dust and gas blast out on either side of the comet’s center or nucleus when ice below the surface...
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