Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope re-observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS last month. Located about 178 million miles from Earth at the time, Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured the comet as it streamed across the sky. As a result, background stars appear as streaks, highlighting the comet’s rapid movement. This event marks the latest in a campaign … Read more
Isro captures interstellar comet IAtlas from telescope at Mount Abu See pic here Source link
Till now, more than 3,700 comets in our solar system have been observed by astronomers. (Image: ESA) Comet Leonard: Comet Leonard is set to make its closest approach to Earth on Sunday night. Well, we say closest approach but don’t worry, it will still be at a distance of around 35 million kilometres. Till now, … Read more
The Rosetta mission of the European Space Agency and the ANational Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has dicovered a comet which has its own “far-ultraviolet aurora”. The comet named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – Chury for short – is one of a kind as it is the for the time that an ultraviolet aurora has been detected on … Read more