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5 Sky Events This Week: Comet Buzzes Mars, False Dawn, Green Giant

While comet ISON will be making a flyby of Mars this week, this may be just a dress rehearsal for a much closer encounter with another comet late next year, as portrayed in this illustration. Credit:...

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Weird Newfound Asteroid Sports Six Comet Tails

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a bizzare body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt...

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Rosetta Wakes to Chase Comet

This artist’s rendering shows the European Rosetta spacecraft and its lander a few moments before it touches down on the comet’s surface. Credit: ESA After rising from a 31-month electronically induced...

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February 9, 2014: Cycling and Climbing Through a Sufferfest, Surviving a...

This map retraces the “Endurance” expedition of Ernest Shackleton, nearly 100 years ago. We spoke with Tim Jarvis, who recreated the expedition in Shackleton’s period clothing. Jarvis shares his very...

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Powerful Jets From Mars-Bound Comet Spied by Hubble

These Hubble Space Telescope images show comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) on March 11, 2014. Left, the solid icy nucleus is too small to be resolved, but it lies at the center of a dust cloud (coma)...

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5 Sky Events This Week: Penguin Solar Eclipse, Comet Encounters Whirlpool

This week a comet glides past the iconic Whirlpool galaxy. Courtesy: K. Rhode, M. Young, and WIYN/NOAO/AURA/NSF From an exotic solar eclipse to a comet buzzing a galaxy, a veritable cosmic buffet of...

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NASA Preps Mars Orbiters for Comet Close Encounter

NASA and astronomers worldwide are preparing for Mars to have a close encounter with a comet in October this year, as portrayed in this illustration. Courtesy: NASA A cometary near miss for Mars in a...

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Spacecraft Arrives at Stunning Comet

The Rosetta spacecraft captured this stunning picture of the craggy surface of its comet target as it settled into orbit on August 6, 2014. The new high-resolution photo shows craters, cliffs, and...

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Comet’s Near Miss with Mars on Tap for Sunday

Mountain-sized comet Siding Spring brushes past the planet Mars on October 19, 2014, as portrayed in this illustration. Courtesy of NASA A once-in-a-million-year close encounter comes to Mars on...

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Mars Spacecraft Snag Comet Views

This amazing image from a Earthbound telescope captures the ghostly green comet Siding Spring passing by bright, orange-hued Mars 166.5 million miles (268 million kilometers) from Earth on October 19,...

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