Monday, December 7, 2009

Discover the Cosmos/ Comet Tail

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2009 December 6
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The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught
Credit & Copyright: Robert H. McNaught

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5 comments:

  1. nemo 4sunDecember 7, 2009 at 5:01 PM

    wow~

    i didn't hear of a close comet

    :)

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  2. Susan Van DornDecember 8, 2009 at 7:11 AM

    I know and this was just posted on the site on the 6th. Strange

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  3. nemo 4sunDecember 8, 2009 at 5:19 PM

    i looked it up
    the comet was in 2006

    it was visible in the southern hemisphere

    :)

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  4. Susan Van DornDecember 9, 2009 at 6:35 AM

    How ambitious of you. Cool. Guess they just got around to posting it. There is a new one every day.

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  5. nemo 4sunDecember 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM

    i remember hearing about it at the time

    but as it was only in the south i didn't pay it much mind

    :)

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