ASTRONOMY PICTURE

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Comet

MAR 19, 2004

Going Wild

APR 20, 2004

Comet Hale-Bopp Over Indian Cove

APR 22, 2004

Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)

APR 23, 2004

Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)

MAY 7, 2004

Look West for a NEAT Comet

MAY 27, 2004

Two Comets in Southern Skies

JUN 22, 2004

Unusual Spires Found on Comet Wild 2

JUL 24, 2004

A String Of Pearls

AUG 30, 2004

Announcing Comet C/2003 K4 (LINEAR)

DEC 13, 2004

Announcing Comet Machholz

JAN 5, 2005

Comet Machholz in View

JAN 11, 2005

Machholz Meets the Pleiades

MAY 12, 2005

Stars, Galaxies, and Comet Tempel 1

MAY 16, 2005

Deep Impact Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Comet

MAY 22, 2005

The Dust and Ion Tails of Comet Hale-Bopp

JUL 3, 2005

A Swift Look at Tempel 1

JUL 5, 2005

Thirteen Seconds After Impact

JUL 6, 2005

The Landscape on Comet Tempel 1

SEP 15, 2005

The Nucleus of Comet Tempel 1

JAN 16, 2006

Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth

MAR 6, 2006

Unexpected Comet Pojmanski Now Visible

MAR 11, 2006

Colors of Comet Pojmanski

APR 26, 2006

Crumbling Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Approaches

MAY 4, 2006

Schwassmann-Wachmann 3: Fragment B

MAY 11, 2006

Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I

MAY 12, 2006

Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part II

MAY 13, 2006

Crumbling Comet

MAY 23, 2006

Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Passes the Earth

AUG 17, 2006

Comet Dust over Colorado

OCT 19, 2006

SWAN Meets Galaxy

OCT 28, 2006

Comet SWAN Outburst

JAN 5, 2007

Comet McNaught Heads for the Sun

JAN 9, 2007

McNaught Now Brightest Comet in Decades

JAN 17, 2007

Comet McNaught from New STEREO Satellite

JAN 19, 2007

McNaught’s Matinee

JAN 20, 2007

SOHO: Comet McNaught Movie

JAN 22, 2007

The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

MAR 1, 2007

Rosetta Over Mars

OCT 26, 2007

Comet Holmes in Outburst

OCT 29, 2007

A Telescopic View of Erupting Comet Holmes

OCT 30, 2007

Comet Holmes’ Coma Expands

FEB 2, 2009

Comet Lulin Approaches

FEB 7, 2009

Comet Lulin Tails

JUL 23, 2009

Jupiter’s New Impact Scar

JUL 31, 2009

Hubble View: Jupiter Impact

OCT 2, 2009

Comet and Orion

DEC 6, 2009

The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

JAN 16, 2010

New Year Sungrazer

JUN 7, 2010

Comet McNaught Becoming Visible to the Unaided Eye

JUN 17, 2010

Comet McNaught Passes NGC 1245

OCT 7, 2010

Pacman and Hartley

NOV 5, 2010

Comet Hartley 2 Flyby

NOV 8, 2010

700 Kilometers Below Comet Hartley 2

FEB 16, 2011

Comet Tempel 1 from Stardust-NeXT Spacecraft

AUG 6, 2011

Comet Garradd and Messier 15

SEP 9, 2011

Comet Garradd and the Coat Hanger

OCT 5, 2011

Comet and CME on the Sun

OCT 20, 2011

Tails of Comet Garradd

OCT 1, 2012

Introducing Comet ISON

FEB 7, 2013

Comet Lemmon near the South Celestial Pole

MAR 30, 2013

The Broad Tail of PanSTARRS

APR 5, 2013

Comet of the North

JUL 20, 2013

Comet Lemmon and the Deep Sky

OCT 13, 2013

Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997

OCT 27, 2013

Sungrazer

NOV 9, 2013

Comet Lovejoy with M44

NOV 10, 2013

Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning

NOV 17, 2013

The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

NOV 24, 2013

Comet Hale-Bopp Over Indian Cove

JAN 3, 2014

Lovejoy in the New Year

FEB 20, 2014

Comet Lovejoy over the Great Wall

MAY 23, 2014

Rosetta’s Target Comet

JUN 6, 2014

Comet PanSTARRS with Galaxy

AUG 7, 2014

Rosetta’s Rendezvous

OCT 16, 2014

Rosetta’s Selfie

OCT 17, 2014

Messier 6 and Comet Siding Spring

OCT 20, 2014

Comet Siding Spring Passes Mars

NOV 13, 2014

Descent to a Comet

NOV 14, 2014

Welcome to a Comet

NOV 29, 2014

3D 67P

JAN 14, 2015

The Hunter, the Bull, and Lovejoy

FEB 3, 2015

Jets from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko

FEB 27, 2015

Long Lovejoy and Little Dumbbell

JUL 20, 2015

Comet PanSTARRS and a Crescent Moon

JUL 21, 2015

Comet Tails and Star Trails

AUG 15, 2015

Perihelion Approaches

AUG 18, 2015

Announcing Comet Catalina

NOV 18, 2015

A Sudden Jet on Comet 67P

NOV 28, 2015

Rosetta and Comet Outbound

JAN 6, 2016

Comets and Bright Star

JAN 21, 2016

The View Toward M101

JAN 23, 2016

Big Dipper, Deep Sky

MAR 17, 2016

Close Comet and Large Magellanic Cloud

MAR 25, 2016

Close Comet and the Milky Way

APR 21, 2016

The Comet, the Owl, and the Galaxy

JUN 17, 2016

Comet PanSTARRS in the Southern Fish

OCT 1, 2016

Rosetta’s Farewell

FEB 12, 2017

Comet 45P Passes Near the Earth

FEB 20, 2017

Almost Three Tails for Comet Encke

MAR 24, 2017

The Comet, the Owl, and the Galaxy

MAR 31, 2017

3D 67P

APR 7, 2017

Castle Eye View

SEP 23, 2017

A Conjunction of Comets

NOV 3, 2017

A/2017 U1: An Interstellar Visitor

JAN 12, 2018

Blue Comet PanSTARRS

JAN 18, 2018

Blue Comet in the Hyades

FEB 16, 2018

Comet PanSTARRS is near the Edge

APR 26, 2018

The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko

AUG 23, 2018

Comet, Heart and Soul

SEP 13, 2018

Comet, Clusters and Nebulae

SEP 18, 2018

Salt, Pepper, and Ice

NOV 15, 2018

Comet 46P/Wirtanen

DEC 7, 2018

December’s Comet Wirtanen

DEC 15, 2018

Geminids and Friends

FEB 9, 2019

Comet Iwamoto and the Sombrero Galaxy

MAR 1, 2019

A Charioteer’s Comet

MAR 30, 2019

3D 67P

OCT 18, 2019

Interstellar Interloper 2I/Borisov

APR 29, 2020

The Ion Tail of New Comet SWAN

SEP 10, 2021

Rosetta’s Comet in View

OCT 22, 2021

A Comet and a Crab

NOV 13, 2021

Rosetta’s Comet in Gemini

NOV 21, 2021

Introducing Comet Leonard

MAR 5, 2022

Interstellar Comet 2I Borisov

JUL 21, 2022

Messier 10 and Comet

AUG 20, 2022

Stardust and Comet Tails

OCT 8, 2022

Two Comets in Southern Skies

DEC 24, 2022

Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF)

JAN 21, 2023

Naked-eye Comet ZTF

JAN 28, 2023

Comet ZTF over Mount Etna

MAR 24, 2023

Outbound Comet ZTF

SEP 11, 2023

Beautiful Comet Nishimura

OCT 26, 2023

Orionids in Taurus

OCT 27, 2023

Encke and the Tadpoles