#PPOD: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks graces the evening sky above the summits of Kežmarský štít (8,389 ft/2,557 m), at right, and Lomnický štít (8,635 ft/2,632 m), at left in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia. At the summit of Lomnický štít is a small domed building. This structure is the Skalnaté pleso Observatory, one of the highest astronomical observatories in central Europe. Credit: Petr Horálek - Institute of Physics in Opava (https://www.petrhoralek.com/)
[#ScienceNews@IRAP ] In 2029, the ESA and JAXA joint #CometInterceptor mission will take off from the Kourou Space Center aboard an #Ariane6. Objective: to study a #comet in its original state - or even an object of interstellar origin.
On March 5, @IRAP delivered the functional electrical model of the Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer (1 eV-1 keV) which is part of the #DFP (Dust, Fields, Particles) experiment. The future is on the way! 👍
This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.
Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.
An exploding, green “devil comet” is zooming past the Andromeda Galaxy as it races toward Earth, creating some astonishing nighttime photo opportunities. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/by8-I9 #Science#Space#Comet#Earth
#PPOD: This view of Comet Halley's nucleus was obtained by the Halley Multicolor Camera (HMC) on board the Giotto spacecraft as it passed within 600 km of the comet nucleus on 13 March 1986. Credit: ESA/MPAe Lindau
On to #8 on #ianstop102023 Let's go back to the night of 11th February when the beautiful green Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was really close to the planet Mars in the sky. The contrast in colour was beautiful! #astronomy#NewZealand#comet#Mars
#Comet#12P#PonsBrooks last night. Proper tail now, even with my unguided 10 year old P&S (Canon G7 X, 240x5s, ISO 800, 100mm EFL, aligned on the comet and stacked with hacky #gmic scripts and tortured in #gimp)
#Timelapse of the frames used for that #Comet#12P#PonsBrooks shot up thread. So many more satellites, a few years ago I'd expect maybe 3-4 or in a shot like this. Doesn't really affect anything in this case (unlike the airplanes, which were bright enough to show up in a 240 frame average after stretching) but definitely noticeable https://flic.kr/p/2pH2hqi
"Who knows whether, when a #comet ☄️ shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed 💥, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains 🏔️, as the giants are said to have done, against the flaming mass ?"