COMETS

Comet 46P Wirtanen In this video I photograph Comet 46P Wirtanen from my backyard. Comet 46P/Wirtanen is 2018’s brightest comet of the year, and will be the 10th closest approach of a comet in modern times. At its closest approach to us on December 16th, the comet will be approximately 30 times the distance of the moon from us is. On December 13th, 2018, I captured this icy snowball with a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR and a 300mm lens. The comet is currently heading towards the constellation Taurus, and can be seen with the naked eye from a dark sky location. iOptron SKyGuider Pro: https://www.ontariotelescope.com/product.asp?itemid=1164&Affid=2 Muisc by Aljosha Konstanty: https://music.aljoshakonstanty.com/ #comet46p

The Geminids meteor shower, one of the best meteor showers of the year, peaks during the night of December 13-14, 2018 and shows up to 100-150 meteors per hour in dark sky. Join Slooh for a live show during which we enjoy live feeds from partner observatories of Geminid meteors and discuss this remarkable annual celestial event.

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. People around the world have the opportunity to participate in the study of comet 46P/Wirtanen as it has a close approach with Earth in December of 2018.

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Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of Comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 10, 2018. The comet will fly just 7,199,427 miles (11,586,350 kilometers) on Dec. 16. -- How to see the comet in Dec. 2018: https://www.space.com/42575-see-comet-64p-wirtanen-earth-flyby-december-2018.html Best Telescopes for the Money: https://www.space.com/15693-telescopes-beginners-telescope-reviews-buying-guide.html Credit: Space.com / footage courtesy Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

Comet Wirtanen motion across the stars, as seen via the Virtual Telescope Project on 10 Dec. 2018. See comet Wirtanen live with us here: https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/

While photographing Comet 46P / Wirtanen, a Geminid blazed past, leaving a train which slowly dissipated into the air. Photographed 12/10/2018 at 1:00 am from Gerald, Missouri USA Exposures were a series of 13" f/1.8 @ 3200 ISO

If you can brave the cold long enough to find a clear patch of night sky, you can watch two bright astronomical phenomena this December: the 46P/Wirtanen “Christmas comet” and the Geminid meteor shower. For the best chance, find a place away from light pollution, and look for a diffuse, dim area of light a little below the Pleiades. (The Pleiades are the stars that form a tiny cluster near Taurus, not far from the constellation Orion. It will be closest to earth—less than 8 million miles away—on December 16. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-see-this-years-christmas-comet-and-geminid-meteo-1830991857 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

www.eyesonthesky.com Comet 46P/Wirtanen makes a close approach to Earth on December 16, but due to it's size can be tricky to find and see. Learn where to find it, how to observe it, and importantly - how to upload the orbital elements into Stellarium so you can track and locate it precisely. Here's a useful chart: https://theskylive.com/46p-info See what's up in the night sky every week with "Eyes on the Sky" videos, astronomy made easy.

This data was taken December 1 and December 4, 2018. This comet is expected to be seen by the unaided eye by the middle of December and is easily seen in binoculars and a telescope right now. Get out and check this one out before it's gone! EQUIPMENT: Explore Scientific ED102, Sony a7sii, Orion Atlas EQ Mount. --SOCIAL-- @DEEPSKYDUDE --CONTACT-- [email protected] #46pwirtanen #comet46p #deepskydude

Skywatching columnist Joe Rao explains how you can find Comet 46P/Wirtanen in December 2018's night sky. -- What to Expect: https://www.space.com/42575-see-comet-64p-wirtanen-earth-flyby-december-2018.html Best Telescopes for the Money: https://www.space.com/15693-telescopes-beginners-telescope-reviews-buying-guide.html Credit: Space.com / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

Full podcast episodes: http://www.askaspaceman.com Support: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter Follow: http://www.twitter.com/PaulMattSutter and http://www.facebook.com/PaulMattSutter Where is the Oort Cloud and what is it made of? Why do we think some comets from there? If the Oort Cloud exists, how did it form? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Follow all the show updates at http://www.askaspaceman.com, and help support the show at http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

Want to get a shot of Christmas Comet 46P Wirtanen for it's 2018 close approach? I show you one of my imaging sessions for comet astrophotography and a simple approach to stacking on the comet nucleus with Nebulosity. Find Wirtanen : https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/MPEph/MPEph.html Search for C/WIRTANEN Dylan’s gear in this video ———- Canon 6D mkII DSLR https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071K62DZT/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B071K62DZT&linkCode=as2&tag=dylodon-20&linkId=75d20915794fb651dceb06b9412d53ac Tokina 16-28mm Lens https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003V1YGT6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003V1YGT6&linkCode=as2&tag=dylodon-20&linkId=bd12cca4526a0f82b68e7f57317fd8ec Celestron 9.25” Edge HD https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003P93YLK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003P93YLK&linkCode=as2&tag=dylodon-20&linkId=52ec74310b92c24e5152699b49fd0c56 Dylan’s links ———— PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/dylanodonnell WEB : https://deography.com FACEBOOK : https://facebook.com/dylanodonnell TWITTER : https://twitter.com/erfmufn INSTAGRAM : https://instagram.com/dylan_odonnell_ Guitar Noodling by Dylan O'Donnell Intro & Outro Music - "Moving the Ocean (Aerologic Edit)" by Blastculture.

COMETA 46P/WIRTANEN, DOVE E QUANDO OSSERVARLA. Perché dall'emisfero Nord riusciremo a vedere la cometa 46P/Wirtanen solo da dicembre? Dove sarà nello spazio rispetto alla Terra? Dove la troveremo in cielo, notte dopo notte? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Simulazione nello spazio: TheSkyLive Simulazione nel cielo: Stellarium Cover: Rolando Ligustri Musica: Stellardrone, "Comet Halley" (FreeMusicArchive)

This is an AstroGrav video that shows a simulation of the path of Comet 46P/Wirtanen as seen from space between early August 2018 and late March 2019. The left of the two symbols on the orbit indicates the perihelion of the comet, which is the point where the comet is closest to the Sun. The right of the two symbols on the orbit indicates the ascending node of the comet, which is the point where the comet moves from below the plane of the Earth's orbit to above the plane of the Earth's orbit.

How we finally learned that comets were made of water. It took a surprisingly long time. Universe of Water playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa0TgREKn12jUoCK0N4qQVgTgGalS6KDG Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parallaxicality/?ref=bookmarks Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickrwebb?lang=en-gb

Oliver Price, a planetary science Ph.D. student at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, has developed a new image-processing technique to mine through the wealth of data about comet tails. Price's findings offer the first observations of striations forming in the tails, and an unexpected revelation about the Sun's effect on comet dust. Understanding how dust behaves in the tail -- how it fragments and clumps together -- can teach scientists a great deal about similar processes that formed dust into asteroids, moons and even planets all those billions of years ago. With this study, scientists gain new insights to long-held mysteries. The work sheds light on the nature of striated comet tails from the past and provides a crucial lens for studying other comets in the future. But it also opens a new line of questioning: What role did the Sun have in our solar system's formation and early history? Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/new-insights-on-comet-tails-are-blowing-in-the-solar-wind This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12900 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard

Dieses Video zeigt die Bewegung des Kometen 64P/Swift-Gehrels am Nachthimmel am Abend des 4. Oktober 2018. Es basiert auf 100 Aufnahmen mit jeweils 60 Sekunden Belichtungszeit. Die Bilder wurden stark beschnitten, um den Kometen besser hervorzuheben. This video shows the movement of comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels across the night sky on Oct. 4th, 2018. It consists of 100 exposures with 60s exposure time. Images were widely cropped to highlight the comet. Skywatcher 130/650 PDS, NEQ6, Canon EOS 760D, 100x60s, ISO 1600, cropped Credit: astropage.eu

This short movie shares an impression of some of the scientific highlights from Rosetta's mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, as told through the voices of scientists working with Rosetta's vast dataset, two years after the mission ended. Rosetta launched in 2004 and travelled for ten years to its destination before deploying the lander Philae to the comet's surface. Following the comet along its orbit around the Sun, Rosetta studied the comet's surface changes, its dusty, gassy environment and its interaction with the solar wind. Even though scientific operations concluded in September 2016 with Rosetta's own descent to the comet's surface, analysis of the mission's data will continue for decades. Credits: This is an ESA Web TV production. The video contains artist impressions of the spacecraft (credit: ESA/ATG medialab) and animations/infographics by ESA. Images of the comet are from Rosetta's OSIRIS and NAVCAM cameras, as well as Philae's CIVA camera (credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA – CC BY SA 4.0; ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0; ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA). Ground-based images were provided by Colin Snodgrass/Alan Fitzsimmons/Liverpool Telescope. The plasma visualisation is based on modelling and simulation by Technische Universität Braunschweig and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, and visualised by Zuse-Institut Berlin. The animation of Philae's flight across the surface is based on data from Philae's ROMAP, RPC-MAG, OSIRIS, ROLIS, CIVA CONSERT, SESAME and MUPUS instrument teams, the Lander Control Centre at DLR and the Science Operation and Navigation Center at CNES. Learn more about #Rosetta: http://bit.ly/RosettaMissionESA ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideos Follow ESA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitter On Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebook On Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagram On Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr ESA is Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out http://www.esa.int/ESA to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions

Over the course of a century, three men cracked the ancient mystery of comets, transforming them from harbingers of death to mundane celestial objects: Tycho Brahe, Isaac Newton, and Edmond Halley. This is their story. Full Universe of Water playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa0TgREKn12jUoCK0N4qQVgTgGalS6KDG Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parallaxicality/ Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickrwebb?lang=en-gb

So-called 'death comet' to do a fly-by around Halloween

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November of 2014. But when its landing harpoons failed to deploy, it bounced all over the comet before tumbling into a shady place where its solar panels couldn't collect enough light. Philae did transmit some data to Rosetta while using the last of its batteries after the landing, and it occasionally made contact for months after the crash. Rosetta kept looking for Philae by flying around Comet 67P and taking photos. It took Rosetta almost two years to find Philae. A photo taken on Sept. 2, 2016 showed little Philae lying on its side in a dark, rocky crevice. Locating Philae's grave finally gave the European Space Agency some closure less than a month before Rosetta's mission came to an end with another epic crash landing on Comet 67P.

This video is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroids and reflected light from Mars. TESS is expected to find thousands of planets around other nearby stars. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-planet-hunting-tess-catches-a-comet-before-starting-science This video is public domain and, along with supporting multimedia, may be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13030 Video credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Producer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems Inc.): Technical Support Claire Saravia (NASA/GSFC): Lead Public Affairs Officer Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park): Lead Science Writer Padi Boyd (NASA/GSFC): Scientist If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts

This video is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroids and reflected light from Mars. TESS is expected to find thousands of planets around other nearby stars. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-planet-hunting-tess-catches-a-comet-before-starting-science This video is public domain and, along with supporting multimedia, may be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13030 Video credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Producer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems Inc.): Technical Support Claire Saravia (NASA/GSFC): Lead Public Affairs Officer Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park): Lead Science Writer Padi Boyd (NASA/GSFC): Scientist If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts

Dieses Video zeigt einen kurzen Zeitraffer von der Bewegung des Kometen 21P/Giacobini-Zinner am Nachthimmel (06.08.2018). Die dargestellte Zeitspanne beträgt gut zwei Stunden. This video shows a short timelapse of the movement of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner across the night sky (August 6th, 2018). The time span is a little more than two hours. Credit: astropage.eu

Patrick discusses comet Hale Bopp. The Great comet of 1997

The European Space Agency has released remarkable images from Rosetta mission's final hours.

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Subscribe to Naked Science – http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 Did comets bring water, organic material, or even life itself to Earth? Panspermia is the controversial hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft in the form of unintended contamination by microorganisms. Clip taken from the Naked Science documentary “Comets”. Watch it here – Coming soon!

Join +Fraser Cain and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Another topic with plenty of updates. Since we started Astronomy Cast we've visited many smaller objects in the Solar System up close, from Ceres and Vesta to Pluto, not to mention a comet. What have we learned?

Comets are icy bodies that are releasing gasses. So what would it be like to stand on one ordinary comet? In this video i explain as to what it would be like to stand on Churyumov–Gerasimenko (or 67P), it is a normally sized comet that we have landed on with a lander called Philae. My twitter: https://twitter.com/Dreksler_Astral Intro,outro and other clips in the video were made with Space Engine. Music: Grass - Silent Partner

April 26, 2018 Phillips Auditorium Kathrin Altwegg Universität Bern Host: Karin Oberg Abstract: After more than 12 years the Rosetta spacecraft crash-landed on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016. It has traveled billions of kilometers, just to study a small (4 km diameter), black boulder named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The results of this mission now seem to fully justify the time and money spent in the last decades on this endeavor. In the talk I will look back on the craziest mission ever flown by the European Space Agency and point out its technical challenges and scientific highlights. I will show how the results of this mission change our understanding about the formation of the solar system, the Earth and finally life itself.

NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE survey uses infrared to detect and characterize asteroids and comets. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, NEOWISE has observed or detected more than 29,000 asteroids in infrared light, of which 788 were near-Earth objects. The orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars are shown in blue. Earth's orbit is in teal. Green dots represent near-Earth objects. Gray dots represent all other asteroids which are mainly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Yellow squares represent comets. The survey depicted in the animation covers the period from December 13, 2013 to December 13, 2017.

Catastrophic collisions between comets do not always have to end in destruction. New research shows that some comets can collide and quickly reform within just a few days, or even hours. Video from: "Catastrophic disruptions as the origin of bilobate comets" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0395-2). Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam/Stephen R. Schwartz/Patrick Michel/Martin Jutzi/Simone Marchi/Yun Zhang/Derek C. Richardson

"Like comets, these chunks of dry ice slowly disintegrate as they move. Comets are massive chunks of ice, frozen gases, and dust that orbit the Sun. As they near the Sun, these lonely travelers begin to give off gas, gradually shrinking and forming glowing tails that can stretch for millions of miles. Here, dry ice twirls in water just as comets move through space: ever changing and slowly dying until only fading clouds and memory remain."

NASA is going to decide between a comet sample return mission or a helicopter on Titan. Which mission should it be? See Tim's video here: https://youtu.be/JkS2dP7eiEU Then vote! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogrSQkBJn1KF0N9I4oM7eQ/community?lb=UgzkKXIhEDAV-WxBS2R4AaABCQ Subscribe to Tim's Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 References: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invests-in-concept-development-for-missions-to-comet-saturn-moon-titan http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/spacecraft/caesar-sample-return.html http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/History_of_cometary_missions http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/ http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/58220-philae-found/ https://www.asteroidmission.org/ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/070628/squyres.html

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On January 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the first robotic sample return mission of its kind. It didn't land on the comet, but it flew close enough to collect dust grain samples from the comet's coma. This is the cloudy region around a comet where evaporating ice and other particles are blown away from the comet's surface, forming the comet's characteristic "tail." Stardust also took some photos of the comet's icy nucleus before bringing the dust samples back to Earth less than two weeks later.

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The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA mission SOHO — short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — got a visit from an old friend this week when comet 96P entered its field of view on Oct. 25, 2017. The comet entered the lower right corner of SOHO’s view, and skirted up and around the right edge before leaving on Oct. 30. SOHO also spotted comet 96P in 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012, making it the spacecraft’s most frequent cometary visitor. At the same time, comet 96P passed through a second NASA mission’s view: STEREO — short for Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory — also watched the comet between Oct. 26-28, from the opposite side of Earth’s orbit. It is extremely rare for comets to be seen simultaneously from two different locations in space, and these are the most comprehensive parallel observations of comet 96P yet. Scientists are eager to use these combined observations to learn more about the comet’s composition, as well as its interaction with the solar wind, the constant flow of charged particles from the Sun. Both missions gathered polarization measurements of the comet; these are measurements of sunlight in which all the light waves become oriented the same way after passing through a medium — in this case, particles in the tail of the comet. By pooling the polarization data together, scientists can extract details on the particles that the light passed through. Comet 96P — also known as comet Machholz, for amateur astronomer Dan Machholz’s 1986 discovery of the comet — completes an orbit around the Sun every 5.24 years. It makes its closest approach to the Sun at a toasty 11 million miles — a very close distance for a comet. When comet 96P appeared in SOHO’s view in 2012, amateur astronomers studying the SOHO data discovered two tiny comet fragments some distance ahead of the main body, signaling the comet was actively changing. This time around they have detected a third fragment — another breadcrumb in the trail that indicates the comet is still evolving. Scientists find comet 96P interesting because it has an unusual composition and is the parent of a large, diverse family, referring to a group of comets sharing a common orbit and originating from a much larger parent comet that over millennia, broke up into smaller fragments. Comet 96P is the parent of two separate comet groups, both of which were discovered by citizen scientists studying SOHO data, as well as a number of Earth-crossing meteor streams. By studying the comet’s ongoing evolution, scientists can learn more about the nature and origins of this complex family.

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On Oct. 18, astronomers think they spotted a comet or asteroid that originated in a different star system passing through our solar system for the first confirmed time.

Yesterday (Oct. 25) we reported that a comet had been discovered named C/2017 U1. New observations later in the day have revealed the object to be “completely stellar” and its designation was changed to asteroid A/2017 U1 by the Minor Planet Center. It’s trajectory is currently thought to be hyperbolic but further observations are still needed to predict its origin. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/38580-interstellar-object-spotted-comet-asteroid-mystery.html -- More about the redesignation at the Minor Planet Center website: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K17/K17UI3.html Original report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6GYizNVGw Credit: Space.com / orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech / edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

Comet 2017 U1 was discovered a few days ago using the PANSTARRS telescope. Further observations are needed to confirm but "this object may be the first clear case of an interstellar comet," according to the Minor Planet Center. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/38580-interstellar-object-spotted-comet-asteroid-mystery.html http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K17/K17UI1.html Credit: Space.com / orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech / edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

Some comets orbit the Sun on a regular basis, but others come in from deep space, a region known as the Oort Cloud. What causes them to make this journey, and will we ever be able to explore the Oort Cloud? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIt... Chad Weber - [email protected] Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 Before I get into this episode, I want to remind everyone that it’s been several decades since I’ve been able to enjoy a bright comet in the night sky. I’ve seen mind blowing auroras, and witnessed a total solar eclipse with my own eyeballs. The Universe needs to deliver this bright comet for me, and it needs to do it soon. By recording this video now, I will summon it. I will create a video that’ll be hilariously out of date in a few months, when that bright comet shows up. Like that time we totally discovered a supernova in the Virtual Star Party, by saying there wasn’t a supernova in that galaxy, but there was, and we didn’t get to make the discovery. Anyway, on to the episode. Let’s talk about comets. Comets are awesome. They’re made of gas, dust, rock, and organic materials, smashed together, and existing mostly unchanged since the formation of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago. Every now and then, some gravitational interaction kicks a comet into an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun. Because of the increased radiation, the comet’s volatile gas and dust sublimates off the surface, leaving behind a long tail of ice. And this is how we discover them. In fact, comets are one of the objects in the night sky regularly found by amateurs. And by discovering a comet, you get to have it named after you. Of course many of the comets are named after robotic observatories, just another way the robots are taking human jobs.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. K2 came from the distant Oort Cloud and is visiting our inner solar system for the first (and only) time. Since we're seeing it so far away, past the orbit of Saturn, K2 is still in its early phase of activity, likely making it the most primitive comet anyone has ever seen. Read the web story https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/hubble-observes-the-farthest-active-inbound-comet-yet-seen/ This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12724 Read the science paper here: https://media.stsci.edu/preview/file/science_paper/file_attachment/262/Jewitt_Comet_K2_paper_9-26-17.pdf Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson Music credit: "Space Cake" by Donn Wilerson [BMI] and Lance Sumner [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production Music. Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/

These 210 images reflect Rosetta’s ever-changing view of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko between July 2014 and September 2016. The sequence begins in the month leading up to Rosetta’s arrival on 6 August, when the comet was barely a few pixels in the field of view. Suddenly, the curious shape was revealed and Rosetta raced to image its surface, coming within 10 km, to find a suitable place for Philae to land just three months later. Philae’s landing is featured with the ‘farewell’ images taken by both spacecraft of each other shortly after separation, and by Philae as it drew closer to the surface at its first touchdown point. An image taken at the final landing site is also shown.The subsequent images, taken by Rosetta, reflect the varying distance from the comet as well as the comet’s rise and fall in activity as they orbited the Sun. Before the comet reached its most active phase in August 2015, Rosetta was able to make some close flybys, including one in which the lighting geometry from the Sun was such that the spacecraft’s shadow could be seen on the surface. Then, owing to the increase of dust in the local environment, Rosetta had to maintain a safer distance and carry out scientific observations from afar, but this also gave some impressive views of the comet’s global activity, including jets and outburst events. Once the activity began to subside, Rosetta could come closer again and conduct science nearer to the nucleus, including capturing more high-resolution images of the surface, and looking out for changes after this active period. Eventually, as the comet returned to the colder outer Solar System, so the available solar power to operate Rosetta fell. The mission concluded with Rosetta making its own dramatic descent to the surface on 30 September 2016, the final images taken reflected in the last images shown in this montage. Explore thousands of Rosetta images in our Archive Image Browser: https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/ More about Rosetta and its science discoveries: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0; ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA; ESA/Rosetta/Philae/ROLIS/DLR

Hubble Observations taken in 2016 show that the comet P/2006 VW139 is a binary object! Each chunk is roughly a kilometer across, and they take between 70-140 days to orbit each other. The tail in this enhanced color sequence is from dust, and changes position due to the geometry; or viewing angle on it from Earth changed between observations. No other object quite like this has ever been seen; it orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It may be relatively young, just a few thousand years ago it was a single body that split either due to a collision or by getting its rotation rate spun up, flying it apart. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) Original press release: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1715/

According to a new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, stars just outside our solar system may knock comets out of orbit and onto paths that could collide with Earth.