comet Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/comet/ Astronomy author and speaker Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:46:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png comet Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/comet/ 32 32 166732936 New image of Comet ISON’s spectacular journey around the Sun https://www.colinstuart.net/new-image-of-comet-isons-spectacular-journey-around-the-sun/ https://www.colinstuart.net/new-image-of-comet-isons-spectacular-journey-around-the-sun/#respond Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:46:59 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1676 This year has been all about Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the destination finally reached by Rosetta after a decade in space. But last year all eyes were on an entirely different comet: ISON. Some commentators were billing it as ‘the comet of the century’, set to put on a spectacular show in our skies. As is often […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/new-image-of-comet-isons-spectacular-journey-around-the-sun/feed/ 0 1676 Bumpy landing may have been good for Philae https://www.colinstuart.net/bumpy-landing-may-have-been-good-for-philae/ https://www.colinstuart.net/bumpy-landing-may-have-been-good-for-philae/#respond Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:38:47 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1673 The recent landing of the Philae spacecraft on the surface of a comet captivated the world. Now it seems its hair-rising ride also came with a fair amount of good fortune. Matt Taylor, the mission’s colourful project scientist, has been describing how it might have been a good thing that the mission’s harpoons didn’t fire. […]

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