Comet 45p heads in to Canes Venatici
View the full res version here On 19 February, comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova passed within close visual proximity to NGC 4631, the whale galaxy and NGC 4656, […]
Month: February 2017
Comet 73P caught breaking apart
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been caught breaking apart in to two pieces on its journey passing the Earth by astronomers at the Slooh observatory. On the […]
Has comet 45P lost its tail?
With the re-emergence of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova from conjunction this month, it seems to have lost its mojo. With a visual brightness of magnitude 8, the comet is dimmer than […]
Asteroid 2017 BS32 Earth flyby
First we had asteroid 2017 AG13 on 9th January, then there was asteroid 2017 BX a few weeks later. The third instalment was smaller asteroid […]