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Depictions of comets in film, icy, small Solar System bodies that warm and begin to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma.
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Films about Halley's Comet, a short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–79 years. Halley is the only known short-period comet that is regularly visible to the naked eye from Earth, and thus the only naked-eye comet that can appear twice in a human lifetime.
The comet left SOHO's field of view on 16 January. [9] Due to its proximity to the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere ground-based viewers had a short window for viewing, and the comet could be spotted only during bright twilight. [citation needed] As it reached perihelion on 12 January, it became the brightest comet since Comet Ikeya–Seki in 1965. [6]
Dot Comet [6] (voiced by Lilly Bartlam) is an energetic and tech-savvy 8-year-old [7] who loves to explore the world. Her name is a play on the .com domain name. She wears a pink dotty dress, yellow rubber boots and she has short curly dark blue hair. Scratch Comet (voiced by Terry McGurrin) is Dot's best dog.
Valley of the Dragons (UK title: Prehistoric Valley) is a black and white 1961 American science fiction film loosely based on Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and heavily dependent on stock footage from the movies One Million B.C., King Dinosaur, Cat-Women of the Moon and Rodan. [3]
Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz sungrazer. It was discovered in November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . The comet's perihelion took it through the Sun's corona on 16 December 2011, after which it emerged intact, though greatly impacted by the event.
LISBON (Reuters) - A bright comet fragment lit up the skies over parts of Spain and Portugal late on Saturday, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), with one Lisbon resident saying the ...