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Credit & Copyright: Dewey Vanderhoff
Explanation:
On April 17th, "Big Sky"
country sure lived up to its name. The dark skies over the US
states of Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas were quite busy, as
shown by this photograph
featuring Comet Hale-Bopp.
In the foreground is the Absaroka Mountain Range
in Wyoming, lit by reflected moonlight. Just to the left of Jim
Mountain's peak is Comet Hale-Bopp.
The unusual colors visible on the far right are aurora,
remnants of the recent solar storm recorded
on the Sun.
Across the middle of the photo are numerous bright stars,
and across the top of the picture are clouds.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: comet
Publications with words: comet
See also:
- APOD: 2024 April 17 Á Total Eclipse and Comets
- APOD: 2024 April 8 Á The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons Brooks
- Comet Pons-Brooks at Night
- APOD: 2024 March 18 Á Comet Pons Brooks Swirling Coma
- Comet 12P/Pons Brooks in Northern Spring
- Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks
- The Snows of Churyumov Gerasimenko