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Hello Comet, shall we dance?, by Robert Barsa, Slovakia
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Criado para o OAE
Legenda: Third place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Comets.
This beautiful and poetic image taken from Slovakia in July 2020 captures the comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise). The direction of the tails of the comet provides a clue as to the position of the Sun. In the past, the appearance of a comet in the skies could be accompanied by apprehension and even fear from those who did not know what these objects really are. Through careful observations and the applications of knowledge from physics, chemistry and geology, we now understand that comets are objects left over from the earliest days when the Solar System formed. The most distinctive features of a comet are the bluish ion (gas) tail, and whitish dust tail, which can extend for tens of millions of kilometres. These distinctive features, easily observable with the unaided eye together with an understanding of the science, are no longer cause for fear, rather they help us understand the history of our Solar System, and bring awe, joy and contemplation, as portrayed in this image.
Crédito: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE
Termos do Glossário:
Cometa , Cauda de cometa
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Astronomia a Olho Nu
, Sistema Solar
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Halley's Comet
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Legenda: Halley’s Comet, is a well-known periodic comet, named after the English astronomer Edmond Halley. It has an orbital period of approximately 75 years and is visible from Earth with the naked eye when it passes through the inner solar system.
The image shows Halley’s Comet, officially designated 1P/Halley, with a tail of gas and dust streaming away from the Sun. It was taken from the La-Silla-Observatory in Chile in 1986 during Halley's Comet's last visit to the inner solar system. The stars in this image appear elongated or as lines of three different colored dots as image was created from three separate observations in different colors of light and the telescope was tracking the comet, which was moving very slightly compared to the background stars. Note that the comets tail does not point in exactly the same direction as the elongation of the stars. This shows us that the comet tail is not always behind the comet, but instead pointing away from the Sun.
The comet passes its perihelion (closest distance to the Sun) at a distance of around 0.59 astronomical units, right between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Beyond Neptune, it reaches its aphelion (furthest distance from the Sun) at a distance of approximately 35 astronomical units. Halley's Comet reached aphelion in December 2023 and is now moving inwards again. It is expected to be seen with the naked eye from Earth again in mid-2061.
Crédito: ESO
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Termos do Glossário:
Afélio , Cometa , Cauda de cometa , Cometa Halley , Periélio
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An Encounter With Halley's Comet
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Legenda: This image shows the solid core, or nucleus, of Halley’s Comet, captured in 1986 by the European Space Agency spacecraft Giotto during its flyby of the comet in the inner Solar System. The nucleus appears irregular and potato-shaped, measuring roughly 15 kilometers (about 9 miles) across, and is composed of a mixture of ice, dust, and rock. Unlike the glowing fuzzy cloud (coma) and long tail that make comets visible from Earth, the nucleus itself is dark and difficult to see until a spacecraft passes close enough to take detailed images.
Halley’s Comet is one of the best-known comets because it returns to the inner Solar System approximately every 76 years, allowing generations of astronomers to observe it repeatedly. The material that is released from the nucleus as the comet warms near the Sun forms a glowing coma and long tails of gas and dust, and over many returns leaves trails of debris that produce meteor showers on Earth, such as the Eta Aquarids in May and the Orionids in October.
Crédito: NASA/ESA/Giotto Project
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Termos do Glossário:
Coma cometária , Cometa , Núcleo cometário , Cometa Halley
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy After Crossing Jupiter's Roche Limit
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Legenda: This panoramic image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. This comet was discovered in 1993 as the series of fragments you see here. These fragments were orbiting Jupiter. It is thought that at some point in the previous few decades the whole, unfragmented comet had been gravitationally captured by Jupiter. Then in 1992 the comet passed within Jupiter’s Roche limit.
Astronomical objects exert gravitational forces on each other. The closer one is to an object, the larger the force. Astronomical objects have a real physical size and thus the gravitational force exerted on the object will vary across the object, the side of an object closer to another object will feel a stronger gravitational force from that other object than the more distant side. The gravitational stretching distorts the object. This gravitational stretching force is known as the tidal force. When an object is close enough to a large body like Jupiter, the object will feel such a large tidal stretching force that it will overcome the internal gravitational force holding the object together, ripping it to shreds. The distance from the larger body within which this occurs is known as the Roche limit.
When Shoemaker–Levy 9 crossed Jupiter's Roche limit in 1992, the tidal force pulled the comet into separate fragments. Here we see these fragments in a chain as they orbited Jupiter in May 1994. Later in July 1994 the comet fragment plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere over the course of a week in a spectacular series of impacts. This event provided scientists with a rare opportunity to witness an impact unfolding in real time.
Crédito: NASA, ESA, and H. Weaver and E. Smith (STScI)
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Termos do Glossário:
Limite de Roche , Força de maré
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Cometa Hale-Bopp
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Legenda: Imagem do cometa C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), obtida em 4 de abril de 1997, com um tempo de exposição de 10 minutos. O campo mostrado tem cerca de 6,5° x 6,5°. Duas caudas se estendem a partir da coma brilhante: uma cauda de poeira de cor branco-amarelada e uma cauda de gás azulada, sempre apontando na direção oposta ao Sol.
Crédito: E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Observatório Johannes Kepler, Linz, Áustria
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Termos do Glossário:
Cometa , Cauda de cometa
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Sistema Solar
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