The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
Last year, another comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, drew attention with similar explosions that gave it a horned shape, earning it the ...
A volcanic comet moving around in the inner solar system has suddenly become extremely violent, blasting out four times in 48 ...
Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...
The color comes from carbon in the gas cloud surrounding its nucleus, known as the coma. The comet wasn’t nearly as spectacular as NEOWISE was back in 2020, the brightest comet to come this way since ...
Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...