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 ...

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 ...

The small photos of Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp in the initial color astrophoto montage do not do them justice. Here they have been reprocessed for a larger display. The photo of Comet ...

Here we believe that we're seeing the remnants of a piece of the surface of the nucleus that broke off and then started disintegrating. If you look carefully at the above image, you should be able to ...

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 ...

Yuji Hyakutake, an amateur Japanese astronomer known for his discovery of a comet in 1996 that was later dubbed Comet Hyakutake, died Wednesday evening, his family said Thursday. He was 51. According ...

It had not been seen in 10,000 years and isn’t expected again for 14,000 more. But Jan. 30, 1996, the ball of ice and dirt the size of Chicago revealed itself to an amateur astronomer named Yuji ...