Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 4:29pm
If you've had you fill of Olympics and want something a little more celestial to do this weekend, NASA suggests that you head outside and check out one of the most spectacular meteor showers in years.
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Friday, December 23, 2011 - 9:44am
International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank was in the right place at the right time yesterday — 239 miles above Earth's horizon in fact — when he spotted Comet Lovejoy putting on a show as it passed Earth back into space.
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 6:00am
We've seen comets dive at the sun before, but immediately followed by a huge solar explosion? Not so much. Check out the video below to see how two completely unrelated events created something quite lovely.
Friday, November 5, 2010 - 6:00am
Here's a rare close-up of a comet. Hartley 2, to be exact. Named after Malcolm Hartley, the Australian astronomer, "who first identified the body in a photographic plate from a sky survey undertaken in 1986." NASA's Deep Impact probe and Hartley 2 crossed paths about 23 million km from Earth and was only the fifth time a comet has passed so close to a spacecraft.
