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the-wolf-and-moon · 6 months ago
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Twin Tails of Comet Pons-Brooks
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without-ado · 6 months ago
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Opposing tails of Comet Pons-Brooks l NASA APOD
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spacewonder19 · 3 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks © astrocatinfo
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traverse-our-universe · 6 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks by Petr Horálek
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ton-618-ton-618 · 6 months ago
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2024 June 4
A dark star filled sky is shown with the wisps extending the length of the image. The wisps are the two tails of Comet 12P. A particularly bright star is visible near the bottom of the frame.
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Comet Pons-Brooks Develops Opposing Tails
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri & Lukas Demetz
Explanation: Why does Comet Pons-Brooks now have tails pointing in opposite directions? The most spectacular tail is the blue-glowing ion tail that is visible flowing down the image. The ion tail is pushed directly out from the Sun by the solar wind. On the upper right is the glowing central coma of Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks. Fanning out from the coma, mostly to the left, is the comet's dust tail. Pushed out and slowed down by the pressure of sunlight, the dust tail tends to trail the comet along its orbit and, from some viewing angles, can appear opposite to the ion tail. The distant, bright star Alpha Leporis is seen at the bottom of the featured image captured last week from Namibia. Two days ago, the comet passed its closest to the Earth and is now best visible from southern skies as it dims and glides back to the outer Solar System.
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adastra-sf · 8 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Heart
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We'll have a special bonus during April 8's total solar eclipse: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks returns to the inner Solar System and will appear in the daytime only 25 degrees from the Sun as it goes dark.
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This image by Jan Erik Vallestad shows the comet's ever-changing ion tail in light blue and its outer coma in green, while red-glowing gas spirals around the coma, likely expelled gas from the giant iceberg of a comet's slowly rotating nucleus.
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truthnado · 8 months ago
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Solar eclipse 2024 will be a total eclipse of the Sun and is being called "the Great American" eclipse; but the infamous Pons Brooks comet, also known as "the Devil comet" will be visible from Earth at the same time.
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lily-isalittlegirl · 8 months ago
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comet !
nasa's apod keeps featuring comet pons brooks, which is for good reason because every time i see that blob of ice and dust and i don't know what else, my jaw drops. like. you're telling me, that is real and if i had the right kind of eyes, I could see that?
i should have been born as a special camera or a bee, goddamnit
nasa apod link if anyone wants it: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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trekker2830 · 8 months ago
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先日入手したスマート望遠鏡で撮ってみました。結構綺麗に写りますね🤩
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skylobster · 7 months ago
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In this perspective, the Corona extends almost to Mercury!
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2024 April 17
Total Eclipse and Comets Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan (Tsinghua U.)
Explanation: Not one, but two comets appeared near the Sun during last week’s total solar eclipse. The expected comet was Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, but it was disappointingly dimmer than many had hoped. However, relatively unknown Comet SOHO-5008 also appeared in long duration camera exposures. This comet was the 5008th comet identified on images taken by ESA & NASA’s Sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft. Likely much smaller, Comet SOHO-5008 was a sungrazer which disintegrated within hours as it passed too near the Sun. The featured image is not only unusual for capturing two comets during an eclipse, but one of the rare times that a sungrazing comet has been photographed from the Earth’s surface. Also visible in the image is the sprawling corona of our Sun and the planets Mercury (left) and Venus (right). Of these planets and comets, only Venus was easily visible to millions of people in the dark shadow of the Moon that crossed North America on April 8.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240417.html
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the-wolf-and-moon · 8 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks
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without-ado · 8 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks l Arcan Serifoglu l Mar. 6 to 14, 2024
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spacewonder19 · 7 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks © Chris Jones
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traverse-our-universe · 8 months ago
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Comet Pons-Brooks by Petr Horálek
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quiltofstars · 7 months ago
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Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over a week in April 2024 // Thomas Rox
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hermistslaton · 7 months ago
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What a greeting, is it not?
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I'll see you, Phos.
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