View Images Library Photos and Pictures. Hubble Witnesses an Asteroid Mysteriously Disintegrating-This series of images shows the asteroid P/2013 R3 breaking apart, as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. This is the first time that such a body has been seen to undergo this kind of break-up. The Hubble observations showed that there are ten distinct objects, each with comet-like dust tails,...*Click for more. The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust roughly the size of a small town. When a comet's orbit brings it close to the sun, it heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets. The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from the sun for millions of kilometers (photo NASA) A sun-watching spacecraft just might fly through tail of Comet ATLAS in rare encounter | Space
. These images from Spitzer Space Telescope of Comet ISON were taken on June 13, 2013 about 500 million kilometers from the sun. Left: A tail of fine rocky dust issuing from the comet (the tail points away from the sun). Right: The first detection of a neutral gas atmosphere surrounding ISON, most likely created by carbon dioxide that is "fizzing" from the surface. Comet Garradd are they a cross between a Black Moor & comet goldfish?-Orandas from China
Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust roughly the size of a small town. When a comet's orbit brings it close to the sun, it heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets. The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from the sun for millions of kilometers (photo NASA)
Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust roughly the size of a small town. When a comet's orbit brings it close to the sun, it heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets. The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from the sun for millions of kilometers (photo NASA)
These images from Spitzer Space Telescope of Comet ISON were taken on June 13, 2013 about 500 million kilometers from the sun. Left: A tail of fine rocky dust issuing from the comet (the tail points away from the sun). Right: The first detection of a neutral gas atmosphere surrounding ISON, most likely created by carbon dioxide that is "fizzing" from the surface.
Astronomy Picture of the Day for 29 Jun 2013--See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.
NASA - Hubble Captures Comet ISON
Asteroid P/2013 R3
Description The Lumicon 1.25", 2", and 2" Cassegrain, Comet Filters, are narrow band-pass filters (25nm), that isolate the 501nm OIII line and both C2 lines at 511nm and 514nm. The high contrast of the filter reveals the delicate ionized tail of gaseous comets, allowing you to see their full extent. The Comet Filter also helps you to better distinguish gaseous comets from dusty comets, which normally show little contrast gain. The Cassegrain filter cell threads onto your telescope's SCT rear-cel
What is happening to asteroid P/2013 P5? No one is sure. For reasons unknown, the asteroid is now sporting not one but six discernible tails...
Hubble Witnesses an Asteroid Mysteriously Disintegrating-This series of images shows the asteroid P/2013 R3 breaking apart, as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. This is the first time that such a body has been seen to undergo this kind of break-up. The Hubble observations showed that there are ten distinct objects, each with comet-like dust tails,...*Click for more.
These images from @Stephanie Anderson's Spitzer Space #Telescope of #Comet ISON were taken on June 13, 2013, when ISON was 312 million miles (502 million kilometers) from the sun. The lefthand image shows a tail of fine rocky dust issuing from the comet, blown back by the pressure of sunlight. The image at right shows a neutral gas atmosphere surrounding ISON, likely created by carbon dioxide fizzing off the comet at a rate of 2.2 million pounds per day.
Comet Garradd
Description The Lumicon 1.25", 2", and 2" Cassegrain, Comet Filters, are narrow band-pass filters (25nm), that isolate the 501nm OIII line and both C2 lines at 511nm and 514nm. The high contrast of the filter reveals the delicate ionized tail of gaseous comets, allowing you to see their full extent. The Comet Filter also helps you to better distinguish gaseous comets from dusty comets, which normally show little contrast gain. The Cassegrain filter cell threads onto your telescope's SCT rear-cel
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Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope discovers 'superheated planet with comet tail'
Celestron Cometron 7x50 Binoculars Black 71198. This pair of Binoculars from the experts at Celestron is made with multi-coated optics offer amazing light-gathering capabilities that allow you to to view the stars with bright sharp focus making them the perfect option for comet watching stargazing and viewing craters on the Moon. The Wide field of view on the Celestron 50mm Cometron Celestial Binoculars lets you explore expansive swaths of the sky to quickly and easily pinpoint the exact object
MAGNETIC STORM ON COMET CATALINA: Earth isn't the only place with geomagnetic storms. Comets can have them, too. Such a storm appears to be underway in the sinuous blue ion tail of Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10). Note the blobs of plasma circled in this Dec. 11th photo taken by Michael Jäger of Jauerling, Austria
April 14, 1996: The Rotating Jets of Comet Hyakutake - Credit: James A DeYoung (USNO), USNO's 24-inch Telescope - Explanation: Comet Hyakutake will reach its closest point to the Sun on May 1, passing well inside the orbit of Mercury. At this time, the comet's dust and ion tail will be at their greatest physical length. As the comet nears the Sun, gas and dust are driven off the surface, sometimes being shot off in jets. More...
Subaru Telescope Captures the Fine Details of Comet Lovejoy's Tail
Enhanced image of comet ISON
Comet Ison. . . (Comet of the century? Arriving the fall/winter 2013/2014) A blue-white comet burns through the blackness, tail blazing southwest of a bright point of white light
❤ =^..^= ❤ How To See Comet Lovejoy Tonight | Sky & Telescope Shooting remotely with a 12-inch f/3.6 astrograph in Namibia, Gerald Rhemann in Austria took these multi-frame mosaics in late December to document the rapidly changing tail of Comet Lovejoy across seven days. They're not in order; from left to right, they were taken on December 28, 23, 21, 22, and 27. They're not at the same scale.
are they a cross between a Black Moor & comet goldfish?-Orandas from China
This new view of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) was taken with the TRAPPIST national telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory on the morning of Nov. 15, 2013. The robotic telescope is operated from a control room in Li�ge, Belgium.
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The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy
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