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Seeing Our Night-time Visitor

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The night-sky currently has a special treat as Comet NEOWISE passes close to Earth, and it is visible to many people with the naked eye. Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite discovered comet NEOWISE, short for C/2020 F3 … Continue reading →

Rosetta: Extra-terrestrial Observation

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Most people will have seen last week’s news about ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft arriving at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the animated images of the ‘rubber-duck’ shaped object taken from Navigation Camera (NavCam), part of Rosetta’s Attitude and Orbital Control System. The arrival … Continue reading →