The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

By |2024-10-06T09:09:14-04:00October 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, grew a spectacularly long and filamentary tail. The magnificent tail spread across the sky and was visible for several days to Southern Hemisphere observers just after sunset. The amazing ion tail showed its greatest extent on long-duration, wide-angle camera exposures. During some times, [...]