A foreground grass field is shown below a distant field of stars. On the grass field are some trees. Dwarfing the trees, in the sky, is a comet with a long tail. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
远处的星空下是一片草地。草地上有几棵树。天空中，一颗彗星拖着长长的彗尾，与树木相映成趣。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。
A dark sloping hill is seen at the bottom with a bright comet with many tails visible above it, taking up most of the frame. The tails closest to the slope are the most dim. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
底部是一座黑色的斜坡山，山上有一颗明亮的彗星，上面有许多彗尾，占据了大部分画面。最靠近斜坡的彗尾最暗。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。
See Explanation. Clicking on the video will download the highest resolution version available.
请参阅说明。单击视频将下载可用的最高分辨率版本。
The Lincoln Memorial monument in Washington, DC, USA is pictured from afar. Behind the monument is a sunset-colored pink sky. In the sky, on the upper left, is a white streak that is a comet. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
从远处眺望美国华盛顿特区的林肯纪念堂。纪念堂后面是一片夕阳下的粉色天空。天空左上方有一条白色条纹，那是一颗彗星。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。
2023年1月31日 A Triple View of Comet ZTF Image Credit & Copyright: Javier Caldera & Miguel Gracia Explanation: Comet ZTF has a distinctive shape. The now bright comet visiting the inner Solar System has been showing not only a common dust tail, ion tail, and green gas coma, but also an uncommonly distinctive antitail. The antitail does not actually lead the comet — it is just that the head of the comet is seen superposed on part of the fanned-out and trailing dust tail. The giant dirty snowball that is Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has now passed its closest to the Sun and tomorrow will pass its closest to the Earth. The main panel of the featured triple image shows how Comet ZTF looked last week…
2023年1月9日 Tails of Comet ZTF Image Credit & Copyright: Jose Francisco Hernández Explanation: Comet ZTF may become visible to the unaided eye. Discovered early last year, this massive snowball has been brightening as it approaches the Sun and the Earth. C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be closest to the Sun later this week, at which time it may become visible even without binoculars to northern observers with a clear and dark sky. As they near the Sun, comet brightnesses are notoriously hard to predict, though. In the featured image taken last week in front of a picturesque star field, three blue ion tails extend to the upper right, likely the result of a variable solar wind on ions ejected by the icy comet nucleus. The comet’s…
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 sensitive images showed an unusual red tail, and analysis showed much of this third tail’s color was emitted by sodium. Gas rich in sodium atoms might have been liberated from Comet NEOWISE’s warming nucleus in early July by bright sunlight, electrically charged by ultraviolet sunlight, and then pushed out by the solar wind. The featured image was captured in mid-July from Brittany, France and shows the real colors. Sodium…
