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Comet Hyakutake C/1996 B2
Date: 19 Nov 2013 Comet ISON shows off its tail in this three-minute exposure taken on 19 Nov. 2013 at 6:10 a.m....
Steve Chesley, Stardust NExT co-investigator, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, holds up a model of Comet Tempel 1...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope captured this picture of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months after the comet...
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken as NASA EPOXI mission approached the comet at 6:59 a.m. PDT 9:59...
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken as NASA EPOXI mission approached the comet at 6:58 a.m. PDT 9:58...
These pictures of comet Tempel 1 were taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. They show the comet before and after it...
Image taken by NASA EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. The spacecraft...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer features comet 65/P Gunn. Comets are balls of dust and ice...
A small comet was streaking towards the Sun when the Sun blew out a "halo" coronal mass ejection (CME)...
This annotated image depicts the two potential landing sites for ESA Rosetta Philae lander that are on the comet...
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory, STEREO has observed the recently discovered Comet Jacques as it...
Members of the audience look on as Dr. James L. Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA, right, speaks with Dr....
Tim Larson, Stardust NExT Project Manager, speaks during a news briefing, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, at NASA...
Dr. James L. Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA, right, speaks with Dr. Robert Farquar, an executive for...
Dr. James L. Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA, right, speaks with Dr. Robert Farquar, an executive for...
Dr. James L. Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA, right, speaks with Dr. Robert Farquar, an executive for...
Dr. James L. Green, Director of Planetary Science at NASA, right, speaks with Dr. Robert Farquar, an executive for...
In this highest resolution view of the icy, rocky nucleus of comet Borrelly, (about 45 meters or 150 feet per pixel)...
"Timelapse" series of images of comet ISON as viewed by ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
NASA NEOWISE spotted Comet C/2013 UQ4 Catalina, appearing to be a highly active comet one day past perihelion on...
This image montage shows comet Hartley 2 as NASA EPOXI mission approached and flew under the comet. The images...
Have you seen Comet NEOWISE in the sky? ☄️ Visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system, it made its...