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    Comets

    The 'skull-like' imprint left behind by the Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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    Philae’s second comet landing site found after 6 years

    Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) captured from Deir el Qamar Lebanon, overseeing Majdel El Meouch top, during nautical twilight, 5 July 2020. Taken by Maroun Habib. Equipment: Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera, TMB92SS telescope. Credit: Maroun Habib.
    Skills

    Comet NEOWISE Catch it before it fades from view

    Jason Durrant, near Beccles, Suffolk, UK, 11 July 2020. Equipment: Sony A7III, Tamron 28-70mm lens, ISO 3200, 5
    Science

    Gallery Comet NEOWISE blazes across the night sky

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    Comet McNaught over South Australia. Credit: John White Photos / Getty Images
    Science

    10 great comets of recent times

    Hubble captures the break-up of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). Credit NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland)
    Astronomy news

    Eye On The Sky Hubble captures the break-up of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

    See if you can spot Comet C/2020 F8 Swan in the late spring night sky. Credit: Pete Lawrence
    Skills

    Comet C/2020 F8 Swan will be visible this month. Here’s how to see it.

    A view of comet C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS on 21 March 21st 2013, Carinthia/Austria at AMOS Observatory. Credit: RenePi / Getty Images
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    How to see and photograph comet C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS

    Comet Hale-Bopp, photographed by Alan Hale, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, 1996. Credit: Alan Hale (used with permission)
    Science

    Comet Hale-Bopp: the story of a visitor from the edge of the Solar System

    An artist's impression of the Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Credit: NASA
    Podcasts

    Radio Astronomy Podcast Chasing comets, Indian lunar ambitions, Juno at Jupiter

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    ESA's new Comet Interceptor mission will send a spacecraft to study a pristine comet entering the Solar System for the first time. Credit: Comet Interceptor
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    Interview How Comet Interceptor will encounter a pristine comet in space

    An artist's impression of a pristine comet entering the Solar System with the comet interceptor waiting to initiate contact in Earth's orbit. Credit: ESA
    Astronomy news

    The new UK mission to catch a comet

    Four images of Jupiter and the impact of fragment W of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, captured by the Galileo spacecraft on 22 July 1994 from a distance of 238 million km from Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL
    Science

    Impacting Jupiter: the story of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

    A Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON photographed on 10 April 2013 when the comet was 635 million km from Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA
    Science

    What are comets? A guide to the frozen cosmic snowballs

    The elongated crater ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ can be seen in this image of the Martian surface, as seen by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State University
    Astronomy news

    Asteroids, comets deliver organics to Mars

    A plume of dust bursts from the Imhotep region on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 3 July 2016, captured by the Rosetta spacecraft. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
    Astronomy news

    Rosetta reveals comet’s dusty outburst

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