A NASA spacecraft captured the epic encounter in a new video, which also features a cameo of a distant Jupiter. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (12P) is a green cryovolcanic comet with a nucleus measuring ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com | NASA STEREO | edited by Steve Spaleta Elon Musk uncovers limestone ...

Tuesday, April 9: A 2%-lit crescent moon will be below Jupiter, with comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in between. Wednesday, April 10: A 7%-lit crescent moon will be above Jupiter and comet 12P/Pons-Brooks.

Studying this Jupiter-sized world and its long comet-like tail can teach us more about the physics of space, including how planets and their host stars evolve together over time. "The WASP-69b ...

Jupiter, meanwhile has been known to chew up comets due to its intense gravitational field. "It certainly feels like it's only a matter of time before comet 73P is destroyed, disintegrating into a ...

Add the Jupiter crash of comet Shoemaker-Levy in 1994, Halley's most recent visit in 1986, vivid comet West in 1976, and the scientifically signifiant—if visually disappointing—Kohoutek in ...

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We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.

Jupiter has many satellite transits visible ... When you swing over to the comet’s position, you’ll have an outburst if it’s brighter than NGC 2916. Sometimes a small comet comes out of ...

Tuesday, April 9: 2% lit crescent below Jupiter, with comet 12P/Pons-Brooks between them. The crescent moon that ends Ramadan and begins Eid is known as the “Shawwal Moon” since it begins the ...