1.6 Apod Blog

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This photograph is entitled, "The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught". I chose it because I just made and presented my project on comets and meteors recently, so I understand what's going on in the photograph. The tail which stretched across the sky was visible to Southern Hemisphere observers, but also just above the horizon for some north hemisphere viewers as well. This comet was the "spectacular" comet of 2007, and the brightest comet of the last fourty years. The Ulysses aircraft recently flew through the tail of comet McNaught and recorded that the speed of solar wind had dropped a significant amount. <3comets<3