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Credit & Copyright: Adam Block (Caelum
Observatory),
R. Jay GaBany
(Cosmotography.com)
Explanation:
Comet Pojmanski flew by planet Earth
last weekend on a surprise trip through
the inner solar system.
Then an easy binocular target for morning
skygazers,
Pojmanski ultimately showed off a
long tail,
but it also presented some lovely green-blue hues
as gas molecules in its tenuous coma and tail
fluoresced
in the sunlight.
Astronomers Adam Block and Jay GaBany recorded
this
colorful high-resolution view on March 3rd in the
darkness just before twilight.
The picture spans about two full moons on the sky.
Comet
Pojmanski (C/2006 A1) is outward bound and fading now,
still visible in binoculars for northern hemisphere observers.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: comet - Coma - comet tail
Publications with words: comet - Coma - comet tail
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- APOD: 2024 April 8 Á The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons Brooks
- Comet Pons-Brooks at Night
- APOD: 2024 March 26 Á Comet Pons Brooks Ion Tail
- APOD: 2024 March 18 Á Comet Pons Brooks Swirling Coma
- Comet 12P/Pons Brooks in Northern Spring
- Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks