Comet ISON and Encke seen from STEREO – Video
In this video you can see both comets as their tails whip in the solar wind. The latest movie from the STEREO-A spacecraft’s Heliospheric Imager shows the comet moving in…
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NASA hosts Google+ Hangout to discuss Comet ISON Nov 28th
NASA will host a Google+ Hangout Thursday, Nov. 28 to discuss Comet ISON’s journey through our solar system and what the public worldwide may see in the coming days as…
Infant Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
(Source NASA) This composite color image of a giant primordial bubble of gas, dubbed Himiko (after the queen of ancient Japan), is assembled from Hubble, Subaru, and Spitzer data. The…
Comet ISON, Viewing information and Images
UPDATE 11/29/13 – COMET ISON may have survived. Early reports of it’s death may have been pre-mature. It appears par of it reappeared after passing the sun. Read about it…
Leonids Meteor Shower Peak Nov 17,18
The Leonids meteor showers, produced by Comet Tempel-Tuttle, are one of the best for observation. You will see about 40 meteors per hour. Leonids have a cyclic peak year every 33…
Hubble Sees Asteroid Spout Six Comet-like Tails
(Source NASA) – It’s not often that astronomers stumble across a celestial interloper that they can only describe as “weird and freakish.” Hubble researchers say they were “literally dumbfounded” when…
Hubble’s New Image of Our Nearest Neighbor Proxima Centauri
Shining brightly in this Hubble Space Telescope image is our closest stellar neighbor: Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri lies in the constellation of Centaurus (the Centaur), just over four light-years from…
Comet ISON Flight Path Animation
As you can see from this animation we are going to get an excellent view of comet ISON or the “Comet of the Century” as some have called it. Many…
