Space Weather News for Oct. 25, 2006
COMET OUTBURST: Astronomers report that Comet Swan has suddenly increased in brightness 4-fold, from magnitude +6 to +4.5. This makes it a naked-eye object in dark skies and a lovely sight through backyard telescopes. The cause of the outburst: A new vein of volatile ice may have opened up in the comet's nucleus. Solar heating transforms this freshly-exposed material into streams of bright, reflective gas and dust. Indeed, backyard telescopes seem to show new tendrils of gaseous material in the comet's long tail.
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Signs in the sky? Is the Swan trying to tell us something?
10.26.06 11:19 am
tags: Comet Swan Signs in the Sky mundane astrology
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