... For the next week or so, Moon-free skies will let observers get detailed views of the comet s dust and gas tails. ... Comet Catalina is now easily visible in binoculars, but spotting its double-tailed appearance still requires a long exposure. ...
... Comets trailing wispy tails across the night sky are a beautiful by-product of our solar system's formation т?? icy leftovers from 4.6 billion years ago when the planets coalesced from rocky rubble. ...
... Rosetta s dust observations close to the comet nucleus are crucial in helping us to link together what is happening at the very small scale with what we see at much larger scales as dust is lost into the comet s coma and tail, said Matt Taylor from ESA. ...
... night of December 11, Steve Larson with the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) at the University of Arizona was searching for potentially hazardous asteroids when he came across what looked like a comet т?? a faint, wispy tail surrounding a bright, starlike core ...
... The composite color image on the left, taken Nov. 1 by the amateur astronomer Alan Dyer, shows the complex structure of the entire coma, consisting of concentric shells of dust and a faint tail emanating from the comet's right side. ...