Tag Comets - results: 8
Comet Atlas can be seen with the naked eye
a Newly discovered comet called C / 2019 Y4 or simply ATLAS, is approaching our Sun and is quickly growing in brightness. For the first time an unusual celestial object was discovered December 28, 2019 with a robotic astronomical ...
Why finding the comet Borisov in the Solar system could be deadly for her?
Barely once in the overview of the telescope of the Crimean Amateur astronomer, an interstellar comet Borisov, first discovered in late August 2019, instantly became a “superstar” all the astronomical news of the world. The fact t...
While we celebrated the New Year in the Solar system broke new comet
Comet C/2019 Q4 When August 30, 2019 the astronomer of the Crimean astrophysical Observatory Gennady Borisov noticed an unusual interstellar object in our Solar system, the scientific world got the opportunity to expand their know...
Nasa shared photos of the first interstellar comets
Image of the comet 2I/Borisov made by the Hubble space telescope October 12, 2019 As the portal , the Hubble space telescope space Agency NASA was able to provide scientists with data about the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, whose...
How common are mass extinctions?
According to biologists our planet has survived five . The reality is that more than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. According to recent studies, the cycle length of 26 million years, linking...
Astronomers have identified the potential home of the first interstellar visitor
Visited in October of last year our Solar system space object, called "Omwamwi" immediately attracted the attention of all the astronomers of the world. The intruder was discovered by an automated telescope Pan-STARRS1. He had a c...
Interstellar visitor Omwamwi was a comet, not an asteroid
Visit our Solar system "the first interstellar visitor" Omwamwi actually turned out to be a comet. To such conclusions scientists have led to the observed anomalies in the trajectory and speed of movement. Strange cigar-shaped obj...
#photo of the day | "Snow" on the comet 67P/Churyumov — Gerasimenko
In the photo above, and also in the picture, which can be seen below, captures the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov — Gerasimenko, around which circled automatic interplanetary station "Rosetta" the European space Agency (ESA). The ...