At the Comet’s controls, British Overseas Airways Capt. Michael Majendie headed the jet toward Rome, the first of five stops on the 6,724-mile journey to Johannesburg, South Africa. The plane ...

Comet SWAN25F is expected to reach peak brightness in early May 2025 The Virtual Telescope Project It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's comet SWAN25F! Point your eyes to the sky because a newly ...

As the dust gets knocked off the comet, some of it remains in the parent body’s orbital plane. As the Earth passes through that plane, the debris reflects sunlight, giving those of us on the ...

Instead, they are made from dust that has recently been left behind by the comet in its orbital plane around the sun. When Earth passes through this plane, as it did over the weekend, this ...