Most of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block
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APOD: 2024 October 18 - Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS
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Oliver Schafeld
in reply to (moving) APOD • • •I was gonna ask what that "streak of light pointing in the wrong direction" was. But the image caption mentions an "anti-tail".
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/please-explain-what-an-anti-ta-Qx6FQO9QRC.sH_PYWVQuhA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_tail
#comet #tail #astronomy #TIL
dust or gases blown off a comet by solar wind in the inner solar system, leaving a visible trail
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Kid Mania
in reply to (moving) APOD • • •And you managed to capture it without all those annoying starlink sats!
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American Frida
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