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Two Camera Comets in One Sky

By |2025-09-29T13:44:24-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured image taken from France's Reunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fainter Comet ATLAS is approaching our [...]

Five Bright Comets from SOHO

By |2024-10-10T09:09:19-04:00October 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Arranged chronologically all are recognizable by their tails streaming away from the Sun at the center of each field of view, where a direct view of the overwhelmingly bright Sun is [...]

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