On July 23, 1995, an unusually large and bright comet was seen outside of Jupiter's orbit by Alan Hale of New Mexico and Thomas Bopp of Arizona. Careful analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images suggested that its intense brightness was due to its exceptionally la...

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Menu Home Sun Moon Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Spacecraft Small Bodies Asteroids Comets Meteors News Comets Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. There are Chinese records of Comet Halley going back to at ...

Comets nucleus , coma and tail * Top (impactor collision Deep Impact ), ( Rosetta ) * Middle and its blue ionized tail, (Wild visited by Stardust * Bottom seen from Earth in (Lovejoy) imaged from Earth orbit A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun , heats up and...

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