#comet pons brooks

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Twin Tails of Comet Pons-Brooks

[without-ado]

Opposing tails of Comet Pons-Brooks l NASA APOD

[spacewonder19]

Comet Pons-Brooks © astrocatinfo

[ton-618-ton-618]

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.

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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Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Heart

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.

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.

[truthnado]

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.

[lily-isalittlegirl]

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

[trekker2830]

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🤩

[skylobster]

In this perspective, the Corona extends almost to Mercury!

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

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Pons-Brooks

[without-ado]

Comet Pons-Brooks l Arcan Serifoglu l Mar. 6 to 14, 2024

[spacewonder19]

Comet Pons-Brooks © Chris Jones

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over a week in April 2024 // Thomas Rox

[hermistslaton]

What a greeting, is it not?

I'll see you, Phos.

[astronerdscorner]

Such a long journey

Every 71 years visits this comet called 12P Pons Brooks the inner solar system and passes the sun. At the moment he is close to the sun which leads to its Coma and tail.

I capture it with 51 frames each exposed for 30s.

[lily-isalittlegirl]

COMET PT 2

PONS BROOKS WE WELCOME YOU

i may or may not be going crazy over this comet ngl but my only exposure to it is the occasion NASA apod that features it. but still it is BEAUTIFUL it is GLORIOUS and i love it

like. it is literally just a dirty snowball (NASA's words, not mine) and yet. it glows. this beautiful blue-green that just SCREAMS science-fiction, and yet it's not. it's real, and it's coming, and we'll be able to see it soon (or we CAN see it, not quite sure). and that tail holy shit it's amazing and yet when you think about it, it's literally just the same stuff that gets sprayed up in the air when our car tires splash through a particularly deep puddle on a cold day when all the droplets freeze before they hit the ground again.

these aren't made of foreign particles. but there is something wonderful about these non-foreign particles in a foreign space coming to visit us, every once in a while.