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Hyakutake Passing Ursa Major by Dennis Harper Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/8zdDyE

Now imagine we are in ancient times and a huge CME hits the Comet, ripping off fragments that fall to Earth...

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Hyakutake passing Ursa Major or Big Dipper 2

Those are tree tops shading the bottom and right side. Since stars are point light sources they readily peek through the branches. There are no leaves on them in March.
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