... Explanation: Meteors, also called shooting stars, normally begin as bits of dust from the tails of comets or even small pieces chipped off asteroids. ...
... Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed crossing the constellation of Cygnus, sporting spectacular yellow dust and blue ion tails ... Several bright blue stars from the open cluster M39 are visible just above the comet's blue ion tail . ...
... from January 1 shows Comet Machholz sporting two lovely tails in skies over Colorado ... the left, strands of the comet's ion or gas tail are readily affected by the solar ...
... Too close to see the comet's growing tail , Rosetta maintains its ringside seat to watch the nucleus warm and become more active in coming weeks, as primordial ices sublimating from the surface produce jets of gas and dust. ...
... NASA's STARDUST mission, launched in 1999, is scheduled to pass through the tail of Comet Wild 2 in 2004 and return many more interstellar dust samples to Earth in 2006. ...
... That night sky was also graced by the long, lovely, bluish tail of Comet Hyakutake , which can be seen toward the top of the image, near the bright star Arcturus . ...