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An Aug. 21 article from NASA says while easy viewing can’t be guaranteed, “it currently seems like a good bet” the comet will become visible to the unaided eye at some point.
As of 9 a.m. Friday, the American Meteor Society had received 177 eyewitness reports, and the path of the meteor appeared to be over central Kentucky near Lebanon.
Solar flares, NASA says, are some of the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Particles from a solar flare can travel at the speed of light and reach Earth in minutes.
The Kentucky Space Grant Consortium (KSGC) is a partnership between Kentucky and NASA. Projects include the University of Kentucky 's Big Blue, Kentucky Space , and Northern Kentucky University 's Moon Buggy Project.
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered from the ATLAS–HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October 2024, at a distance of about 0.008 AU (1.2 million km; 0.74 million mi) from the barycenter of the Solar System, [1] and disintegrated.
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More recently, in 2024, two studies found evidence for a companion star. One study found that a not yet directly-observed, dust-modulating star or white dwarf of 1.17 ± 0.7 M ☉ at a distance of 8.60 ± 0.33 AU would be the most likely solution for Betelgeuse's 2170-day secondary periodicity, fluctuating radial velocity, moderate radius and ...
The point in the sky where the Orionid meteors appear to come from, called the radiant, is the constellation Orion, per NASA. That's where the Orionids get their name.