... Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart for Early April . ... During April Comet Hyakutake heads in toward the Sun after passing the Earth. ... As the Sun floods Comet Hyakutake with ultraviolet light gases in the coma scatter the radiation and fluoresce making the comet a bright source in the ultraviolet sky. ... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the near-nuclear region of Comet Hyakutake on March 25 as the comet approached within 9.3 million miles of the Earth. ... April 2002 . ... March ....