... Comet Machholz in View . ... Credit Copyright: Jimmy Westlake ( Colorado Mountain College ) Explanation: Good views of Comet Machholz are in store for northern hemisphere comet watchers in January. Now making its closest approach to planet Earth, the comet will pass near the lovely Pleiades star cluster on January 7th and the double star cluster in Perseus on January 27th as Machholz moves relatively quickly through the evening sky . ... Publications with keywords: comet - Comet Machholz . ...