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A Comet and Two Dippers

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava

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The featured image shows Comet ZTF with a long tail between two famous star asterisms: the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper. The image depicts the Little Dipper near the top of the image, and the Big Dipper near the bottom.

APOD: 2023 February 7 – A Comet and Two Dippers

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Omg, the comet is so pretty. I was able to see it, but I didn't have a telescope or binoculars powerful enough to see the whole tail arcing through the sky.

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