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July 04, 2014

Comet Pan-STARRS Marches Across the Sky
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 04, 2014
NASA's NEOWISE mission captured a series of pictures of comet C/2012 K1 - also known as comet Pan-STARRS - as it swept across our skies in May 2014. The comet is named after the astronomical survey project called the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System in Hawaii, which discovered the icy visitor in May 2012. Comet Pan-STARRS hails from the outer fringes of our solar system, from a vast and distant reservoir of comets called the Oort cloud. The comet is relatively close to ... read more

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