Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the comet in the footage. Credit: NASA/STEREO/Karl Battams | edited by Space.com's ...

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) with a short third tail (to the left of the comet) and longer gas and dust tails (to the right of the comet) on Jan. 21.

C/2021 S3 PanSTARRS will safely pass by Earth this spring, and researchers are asking for help photographing the comet's journey to see if its tail has been detached by strong solar winds.

T he "once-in-a-lifetime" comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looks like it has grown a physics-defying second tail after reaching its closest point to Earth for more than 80,000 years, new photos reveal ...

The anti-tail was recently also seen in photos of the green comet E3, which had a tail pointed towards the sun instead of away from it. The rare comet using binoculars until 30 October.

The comet tail is noticeably longer each day. Pause the video at about 15 seconds . . . you can see the tail of the comet looks like it is bending.

A comet that has been on an 81,000-year journey to fly by Earth is finally arriving -- and should be visible in our skies in the upcoming days. The space rock — named Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan ...

the comet appears as a bright nucleus followed by a long white tail against the early morning sky which is partly cloudy. Photographer Marcos del Mazo snapped Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the skies ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has an 80,000 year orbit and, ... The tail, which is largely comprised of tiny pieces of ice and dust, is believed to be as long as 18 million miles.

So if you face west, what you expect to see is the tail of the comet, which always points away from the sun, sticking up into the sky right where the sun went down 15 minutes or half an hour before.

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust ...