ScienceCasts: Sunset Comet
March 16, 2013
Comet Pan-STARRS has survived its encounter with the sun and is now emerging from twilight in the sunset skies of the northern hemisphere. A NASA spacecraft monitoring the comet has beamed back pictures of a wild and ragged tail.
credit: NASA
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Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet, Pan-STARRS, Telescopes, Astronomy, Environment, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, C/2006 P1, Discovery program, Space, Comets
