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... April 3, 1997 . Earth, Clouds, Sky, Comet . ... Explanation : Does a comet's dust tail always orbit behind it? ... Small ice and dust particles expelled by the comet, however, are literally pushed around by sunlight. ... When the comet is headed inward, sunlight slows down small particles so they orbit behind the comet. When the comet is headed back out though, sunlight speeds them up, so small particles orbit in front of the comet. ... About APOD > . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... As the comet approaches the Sun, that ice melts and even vaporizes. It boils off the comet head and the moving comet leaves it behind. ... Plus, there must be a large pocket of gas just under the surface of the comet. ... Finally, the tail is streaming off the comet head, but appears to be off to one side since the comet's motion around the Sun makes it leave behind that material. ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people developed complex knowledge systems around the sun, moon, and stars. Stellar positions and properties (such as declination, colour, brightness, and scintillation) were important for navigation, calendars, economics, and time-keeping. Transient astronomical phenomena (including comets, meteors, eclipses, and aurorae) reinforced sacred law and cultural practices and served as a moral charter. ...

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MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

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... This meeting is also sponsored by the IAU as IAU Colloquium 156 . ... Here is the official meeting announcement in either ASCII or Postscript format. ... The chief editor for the SL9 book is Keith Noll, and the co-editors are Paul Feldman and Hal Weaver. ... WORKSHOPS . ... ESO SL9 WORKSHOP . ... The comet SL9 image across the top is a mosaic of HST images taken on 27 January 1994 through a red filter (approximately R-band) (credit: H. A. Weaver, T. E. Smith, the HST Comet Science Team, and NASA). ...

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... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

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