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2021年12月30日 The Further Tail of Comet Leonard Image Credit & Copyright: Daniele Gasparri Explanation: Comet Leonard, brightest comet of 2021, is at the lower left of these two panels captured on December 29 in dark Atacama desert skies. Heading for its perihelion on January 3 Comet Leonard’s visible tail has grown. Stacked exposures with a wide an...
2021年03月08日 Three Tails of Comet NEOWISE Image Credit & Copyright: Nicolas Lefaudeux Explanation: What created the unusual red tail in Comet NEOWISE? Sodium. A spectacular sight back in the summer of 2020, Comet NEOWISE, at times, displayed something more than just a surprisingly striated white dust tail and a pleasingly patchy blue ion tail. Some color...
2020年7月22日 The Structured Tails of Comet NEOWISE Image Credit & Copyright: Zixuan Lin (Beijing Normal U.) Explanation: What is creating the structure in Comet NEOWISE’s tails? Of the two tails evident, the blue ion tail on the left points directly away from the Sun and is pushed out by the flowing and charged solar wind. Structure in the ion tail ...
2020 January 27 Comet CG Evaporates Image Credit & License: ESA, Rosetta, NAVCAM Explanation: Where do comet tails come from? There are no obvious places on the nuclei of comets from which the jets that create comet tails emanate. One of the best images of emerging jets is shown in the featured picture, taken in 2015 by ESA’s robotic Rosetta spacec...