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Credit & Copyright: Gordon Garradd
Explanation:
Another large snowball is falling toward the Sun.
Comet Lee was discovered two weeks ago by
Steve Lee
(AAO) in
Australia, and is expected to brighten
as it approaches the inner
Solar System.
Comet Lee is not expected to become a
naked-eye object, though, with
recent projections guessing it will
peak at magnitude 7 in July.
Starting in May, the
large piece of dirty ice officially known as
Comet C/1999 H1 Lee will be
visible to northern observers. Comet Lee is the
fuzzy patch in the
above picture
taken on April 16 from
Loomberah,
Australia.
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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