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Credit & Copyright: Casper ter Kuile and Robert Haas, Biddinghuizen, the Netherlands, Courtesy
JPL
Explanation:
Comet Hyakutake is
seen here
just as the
Sun sets on April 22. As April
draws to a close, Comet Hyakutake will be visible only just after sunset
and will be hard to discern against the brightly lit sky.
Unfortunately, Comet Hyakutake did not brighten as much as hoped
during its journey to the inner
Solar System, and is now not supposed to
get as bright as it did when it passed the
Earth in late March.
Nevertheless, Comet Hyakutake is still a
bright comet and
spectacular sight.
Latest Comet Hyakutake images:
APOD Hyakutake Archive,
JPL,
Fayetteville
Observer-Times,
NASA's Night of
the Comet,
ICSTARS,
Jerry Lodriguss,
ScienceWeb,
Crni Vrh Obs.,
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: comet - Sun - comet Hyakutake
Publications with words: comet - Sun - comet Hyakutake
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 16 Á A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- APOD: 2024 November 11 Á The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas
- APOD: 2024 November 6 Á Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
- APOD: 2024 October 21 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over California
- Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away
- Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS