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Comet McNaught Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter Halley's Comet Encke's Comet
Hear about the band of dust and debris left by comets, which are visible as meteors (shooting stars)
Halley's Comet, 1910 Comet West Pluto and the Kuiper belt Quaoar Comet Halley nucleus
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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
Astronomy and Space Quiz
The orbits of the planets and other elements of the solar system, including asteroids, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, comet
Space Odyssey
1 July 2002: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite reveals a massive solar eruption more than 30 times the Earth's diameter. The eruption formed when a loop of a magnetic field over the surface of the Sun trapped hot gas.
Brightest Star in the Solar System
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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Illustration by the CDC, reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes on the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus,
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Encyclopaedia Britannica First Edition: Volume 1, Plate XXXVIII, Figure 2, Ark, Ark of the Covenant, a small chest, coffer, contains Aaron's rod, manna pot, tables of covenant, Schechinah, Divine Presence, oracle, shittim-wood, acacia tree
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Charles Darwin, carbon print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
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Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland
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Comet McNaught
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter
Halley's Comet
Encke's Comet
Halley's Comet, 1910
Comet West
Pluto and the Kuiper belt
Quaoar
Comet Halley nucleus
Comet Borrelly
Hear about the band of dust and debris left by comets, which are visible as meteors (shooting stars)
Observe an animation of Encke's comet being hit by a coronal mass ejection
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Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer
David H. Levy
Canadian astronomer and science writer
Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer
Swings, Pol
Pol Swings
Belgian astronomer
Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
John Bainbridge
English astronomer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
Giovanni Battista Donati
Italian astronomer
Wilhelm, Freiherr von Biela
Austrian astronomer
Alexis Bouvard
French astronomer

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1 July 2002: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite reveals a massive solar eruption more than 30 times the Earth's diameter. The eruption formed when a loop of a magnetic field over the surface of the Sun trapped hot gas.
Brightest Star in the Solar System
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
All About Astronomy
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
All About Astronomy
View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
Astronomy and Space Quiz
The orbits of the planets and other elements of the solar system, including asteroids, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, comet
Space Odyssey
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
All About Astronomy