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A comet is an icy planetary body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This outgassing produces what's called a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These visual phenomena are the result of solar radiation and the solar wind that acts upon the nucleus of the comet.
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MAR 24, 2022Space & Astronomy
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MAR 24, 2022
Space & Astronomy
In 2015, scientists were puzzled when the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft discovered abundant molecular o
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 21, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun – The Majestic Planet, with its massive size, swirling multi-colored clouds
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 10, 2022
Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands recently published the first detection of dimethyl et
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 18, 2022
Space & Astronomy
February 18, 1930, is a truly historic day for science, as this was the day Pluto was officially discovered by Clyde W T
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 10, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The radiation in space is not great for biological health. Space radiation is known to damage DNA. Many types of human c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers at the University of Pennsylvania have found an object that's on a trajectory that will take it past Saturni
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 10, 2021
Space & Astronomy
As much of the US swelters in a heat wave this week, cloud cover is also predicted to be low in many places. While there
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 09, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Magnetization on the moon may come from impact events from objects like meteors instead of the presence of a magnetic sh
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUN 05, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Kobe University in Japan have found that heat generated by the impact of small astronomical bodies coul
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 12, 2021
Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists has found that each year, 5,200 tons of dust falls from space to Earth. This far out
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
FEB 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
The Chicxulub impactor is thought to have crashed into Earth around 66 million years ago near the Mexican coast. The cra
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2020
Space & Astronomy
On December 14, 2020, there was a total solar eclipse that could be seen in Chile and Argentina. Now scientists have rev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers from Serbia have found that invisible structures created by gravitational interaction in our Solar System ge
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
OCT 29, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Try imagining a fictional conversation between Issac Newton and Albert Einstein: "The apple falls toward the ground
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 19, 2020
Space & Astronomy
The NEOWISE comet will get closest to Earth on July 22 and will begin to fade from view after that.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 19, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
A recent study published in Scientific Reports sheds light on how our planet’s water could have first come to be.
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 07, 2020
Space & Astronomy
If you were following space news outlets back in 2017, then you likely heard about the particularly odd cigar-shaped spa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 28, 2020
Space & Astronomy
When the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov made its first appearance in our solar system, astronomers were quick to turn the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 21, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Oumuamua received tons of attention from astronomers once it was confirmed to be an interstellar object of unknown origi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 06, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Last Friday, February 28, 2020, the world said goodbye to Freeman Dyson, was a British American physicist and mathematic
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 14, 2019
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Rosetta mission in 2004 to study the particularly captivating comet 67P, an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2019
Space & Astronomy
A distant star system called KIC 8462852, also commonly known as ‘Tabby’s Star,’ has a particularly in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 27, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Comet 67P has captivated the attention of astronomers for a very long time, and so it should come as no surprise to anyo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 26, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Earth sports a lot of water and planetary scientists still aren’t entirely sure how it all got here. To help solve
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard