Rosetta on its way to a comet: Fly-By
Esa’s cool project Rosetta will be landing on a comet and orbiting it in 2014. The comet, called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (these Russians…) will be gradually getting closer to the sun. The spacecraft will study the composition of the comet’s tail, and will land a little module called Philae on the the comet’s surface. Communicating by radio […]
Comet P/17 Holmes: a burst of light
A new buzz in the astronosphere. In the night between October 23 and 24, comet P/17 Holmes, a small little comet of magnitude 17, suddenly became extremely bright, multiplying its brightness by a factor of 1 million! The comet now has a magnitude of 2.7 . The causes are still unknown, however astronomers have reported […]
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