A comet so bright that it has been seen for days from back yards and parking lots across the area was nowhere to be seen Saturday and Sunday nights. A haze of clouds blocked the night sky, dashing the ...
Comet Hyakutake was a naked-eye comet that made its closest approach to Earth in March 1996 after being discovered just two months earlier. First spotted through binoculars, the comet remained visible ...
CNN-- Comet Hyakutake, which swept closest to Earth last week, emitted strong X-rays as it passed, according to U.S. and German scientists.Any level of X-rays would have grabbed the interest of ...
KOHOUTEK FELL SO SHORT OF its hype in 1973 that when one astronomer threw a comet party he served flat, booze-free drinks: fake punch, he said, for a fake comet. Halley raised such expectations that ...
Amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake made a pilgrimage to the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., Sunday night for the closest glimpse of his comet that he’ll probably ever ...
The image of Comet Hale-Bopp blazing across the night sky of 1997 has delighted casual stargazers and astronomers alike. It was first spotted in July 1995 by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, who observed it ...
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