... The central coma is now visible from almost any location - even from a bright city. ... Comet Hale-Bopp 's coma now rivals even last year's Comet Hyakutake , and the tail appears to be increasing in length daily. ...
... Ejected material therefore makes rings, which appear in above photograph as " hoods " in the coma . ... Even though the central part of Comet Hale-Bopp 's coma is quite condensed, the nucleus is not visible. ...
... These telescopes are being used to detect the presence of different molecules in the coma and tail of Comet Hale-Bopp. ... of different types of molecules in Comet Hale-Bopp 's coma give clues to its composition and history, as well as clues to the ...
... NGC 4676 lies about 300 million light-years away toward the constellation of Coma Berenices and are likely members of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ...
... coma: A spherical cloud of material surrounding the head of a comet. ... A cometary coma can extend up to a million miles from the nucleus. comet: A chunk of ... producing a cloud of gaseous material surrounding the nucleus, called a coma ...
... that Comet Hyakutake will change physically, develop a larger coma and tail , brighten dramatically, move noticeably in the sky ... they slough off layers of material as gas and dust, forming their characteristic awe-inspiring comas (heads) and tails ...
... The brilliant blue coma around the head of the comet is also the result of sunlight, exciting molecules which have been ... nucleus itself is very small, only a few tens of kilometers in diameter, but the tenuous coma is millions of kilometers across ...
... The inset (left) is a telescopic image from a backyard in Buffalo, New York showing the comet's greatly expanded coma , but apparent lack of a tail. ...
... 3 nova candidates, Coma and Virgo Exploration for Transients , ATEL 1967 , in NGC 4526, NGC 4459, and M60. 1 nova candidate, Coma and Virgo Exploration for Transients , ATEL 1936 , (COVET-090219A in M60) . ...