Category:Comets
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Comet
[edit]A comet is a small, icy solar system body that is comprised of leftover debris from the formation of the solar system. Comets are composed of various ices, dust and rock. Volatile ices and dust often outgas from the comet forming a coma and a tail when it nears the Sun due to the solar heating.
Subcategories
This category has the following 120 subcategories, out of 120 total.
- Animations of comets (42 F)
- Videos of comets (9 F)
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- (248370) 2005 QN173 (1 F)
- (300163) 2006 VW139 (2 F)
- (323137) 2003 BM80 (1 F)
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- Comet Arend-Roland (14 F)
B
- Comet Bennett (17 F)
- C/1893 U1 (Brooks) (8 F)
C
- C/-43 K1 (Komet Caesar) (6 F)
- C/1807 R1 (40 F)
- C/1845 L1 (4 F)
- C/1874 H1 (Coggia) (12 F)
- C/1881 K1 (18 F)
- C/1892 E1 (Swift) (8 F)
- C/1910 A1 (10 F)
- C/1911 O1 (Brooks) (8 F)
- C/1957 P1 (Mrkos) (8 F)
- C/1980 E1 (3 F)
- C/1986 P1 (Wilson) (3 F)
- C/1989 X1 (Austin) (7 F)
- C/1990 K1 (Levy) (7 F)
- C/1995 Q1 (14 F)
- C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) (12 F)
- C/2001 A2 (4 F)
- C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) (1 P, 12 F)
- C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) (8 F)
- C/2002 V1 (4 F)
- C/2006 M4 (2 F)
- C/2006 VZ13 (3 F)
- C/2006 W3 (6 F)
- C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) (3 F)
- C/2007 Q3 (2 F)
- C/2009 P1 (5 F)
- C/2010 X1 (3 F)
- C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) (63 F)
- C/2012 F6 (9 F)
- C/2012 K1 (6 F)
- C/2012 S1 (75 F)
- C/2013 A1 (40 F)
- C/2013 R1 (13 F)
- C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) (6 F)
- C/2013 US10 (Catalina) (18 F)
- C/2014 E2 (8 F)
- C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) (5 F)
- C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (46 F)
- C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) (6 F)
- C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS) (2 F)
- C/2015 V2 (Johnson) (6 F)
- C/2016 R2 (4 F)
- C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (11 F)
- C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) (4 F)
- C/2017 T1 (Heinze) (2 F)
- C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) (7 F)
- C/2018 C2 (3 F)
- C/2018 F4 (PANSTARRS) (3 F)
- C/2018 V1 (3 F)
- C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) (8 F)
- C/2019 U6 (4 F)
- C/2019 Y1 (4 F)
- C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) (31 F)
- C/2020 F8 (SWAN) (5 F)
- C/2021 A1 (Leonard) (34 F)
- C/2023 H2 (Lemmon) (3 F)
- C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) (26 F)
- C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) (77 F)
- C/2024 Y1 (Mašek) (2 F)
- C/2025 F2 (SWAN) (6 F)
- Coma (cometary) (20 F)
- Comet of 1556 (4 F)
- Comet tails (32 F)
D
- Comet Donati (66 F)
E
- Exocomets (12 F)
G
- Great Comet of 1577 (1 P, 13 F)
- Great Comet of 1618 (9 F)
- Great Comet of 1664 (12 F)
- Great Comet of 1665 (1 F)
- Great Comet of 1680 (19 F)
- Great Comet of 1744 (15 F)
- Great Comet of 1811 (26 F)
- Great Comet of 1843 (13 F)
- Great Comet of 1861 (23 F)
- Great Comet of 1901 (4 F)
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- Comet Hale-Bopp (150 F)
- Comet Humason (7 F)
- Comet Hyakutake (90 F)
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- Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock (6 F)
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- Comet Kohoutek (30 F)
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- Comet Lulin (8 F)
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- Comet Machholz (1 P, 22 F)
- Comet Morehouse (19 F)
P
- Comets in Paris (3 F)
- Comet Pojmański (2 F)
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- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (167 F)
- Comet Stearns (empty)
T
- Comet Tago-Sato-Kosaka (6 F)
W
- Comet West (C/1975 V1) (13 F)
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- Gallery pages of comets (5 P)
Media in category "Comets"
The following 200 files are in this category, out of 281 total.
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De-Komet.ogg 1.6 s; 18 KB
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De-Komet2.ogg 1.5 s; 16 KB
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De-Schweifstern2.ogg 1.8 s; 18 KB
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1764 Messier Comet Star Chart.jpg 1,267 × 988; 332 KB
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1823comet.jpg 187 × 184; 13 KB
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2023-07-24 C2023 E1 Atlas J87.png 5,984 × 3,975; 44.18 MB
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A cometary "aurora" at Paranal (eso0705f).jpg 4,304 × 2,690; 3.13 MB
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A cometary "aurora" at Paranal (eso0705f).tiff 4,304 × 2,690; 17.79 MB
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A413 1992-01-24 C1991 Y1 Zanotta-Brewington.jpg 1,920 × 1,440; 371 KB
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ALMA array operations site * (img 5252).jpg 4,368 × 2,912; 2.5 MB
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ALMA array operations site * (img 5252).tiff 4,368 × 2,912; 36.42 MB
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An emerald in the sky (potw1615a).tiff 8,000 × 4,702; 56.85 MB
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An Infrared portrait of Comet NEOWISE (C2014 C3).jpg 1,148 × 1,148; 149 KB
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Anticoda.JPG 960 × 720; 65 KB
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Anticola.JPG 960 × 720; 64 KB
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Artist’s impression of the surface of interstellar comet 2I-Borisov (close up) (eso2106c).tiff 5,000 × 2,800; 10.12 MB
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Artist’s impression of the surface of interstellar comet 2I-Borisov (eso2106b).jpg 5,000 × 3,000; 1.01 MB
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Artist’s impression of the surface of interstellar comet 2I-Borisov (eso2106b).tiff 5,000 × 3,000; 11.04 MB
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Astronomical Diagrams RMG L1073-009.tiff 4,800 × 3,981; 54.67 MB
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Astronomical Telegram John Ritchie.jpg 846 × 547; 79 KB
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B7828b 1957-10-20 1957f Latyshev-Wild-Burnham.jpg 1,883 × 1,412; 460 KB
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Birdbearcomet.png 366 × 125; 5 KB
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Bradfield after.JPG 2,478 × 3,265; 1.23 MB
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Bradfield.JPG 2,456 × 2,867; 1.4 MB
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Broken fragments of Comet SW-3 (eso0615b).tiff 1,413 × 1,311; 5.33 MB
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C-2014 OG392 LDT 2020-10-14.png 1,081 × 1,081; 180 KB
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C1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly) on 9 June 1898.jpg 1,385 × 1,080; 830 KB
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C1899 E1 (Swift) on 18 May - 5 June 1899.jpg 1,080 × 1,247; 720 KB
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C1899 E1 (Swift) on 8-10 May 1899.jpg 1,080 × 1,661; 996 KB
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C1905 X1 (Giacobini) on 1905-Dec-29.jpg 1,080 × 1,453; 235 KB
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C1911 S2 (Quenisset) on 24 September 1911.jpg 2,193 × 1,514; 1.94 MB
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C1935 A1 (Johnson) on 27 February 1935.jpg 1,080 × 805; 311 KB
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C1954 O2 (Baade) on 26 November 1955.jpg 1,080 × 1,122; 75 KB
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C1960 Y1 (Candy).jpg 966 × 765; 194 KB
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C1978 R3 (Machholz) ESO-1978-09-14.jpg 1,080 × 1,046; 175 KB
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C1998 K1 - C1998 M2 (2MASS).jpg 871 × 507; 257 KB
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C2012 L2 2013-2-19 ImageDownload-1-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-zlwjw---1.png 1,202 × 1,198; 380 KB
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C2012X1 2014-05-18 image WISE-Band-1.png 759 × 580; 203 KB
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C2014Q3 2014-11-27 NEOWISE image 3-color.png 831 × 654; 376 KB
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C2015D1-SOHO.jpg 481 × 360; 29 KB
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C2015K7.png 500 × 500; 72 KB
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C2016U1 2016-11-21 NEOWISE image 3-color.png 746 × 588; 239 KB
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C2018 W2 (Africano) 2019-08-29 NEOWISE image 3-color.png 746 × 588; 171 KB
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C2018N2 2019-11-11 image ZTF-sso-694-zr-size-500.0arcsec.png 831 × 672; 558 KB
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C2019 J2 2019-07-02 image ZTF-sso-876-zr-fov-4.0arcmin.png 831 × 672; 198 KB
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C2020 A2 2020-02-19 image ZTF-sso-828-zg-fov-7.0arcmin.png 831 × 672; 641 KB
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C2020 F5 2021-09-27 image ZTF-sso-242-zr-fov-13arcmin.png 831 × 672; 679 KB
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C2020 T2 2021-05-12 image ZTF-sso-627-zr-size-9.0arcmin.png 759 × 580; 500 KB
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C2020S3 2020-11-14 image ZTF-sso-319-zr-fov-13arcmin.png 831 × 672; 634 KB
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C2021 T4 2022-12-21 image ZTF-sso-295-zg-fov-5.6arcmin.png 831 × 672; 490 KB
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C2021D1 (SWAN) 2021-04-03 image ZTF-sso-653-zr-size-6.4arcmin.png 759 × 580; 394 KB
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C2022 A2 2023-01-12 image ZTF-sso-796-zr-size-15arcmin.png 759 × 580; 515 KB
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C2022 R2 2022-10-06 image ZTF-sso-622-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png 759 × 580; 465 KB
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C2023X1 2023-11-11 image ZTF-sso-421-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png 759 × 580; 498 KB
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C2024 L5 2025-04-16 image ZTF-sso-271-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png 759 × 580; 481 KB
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Capturing a Comet (potw2129a).jpg 10,079 × 6,720; 21.31 MB
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Capturing a Comet (potw2129a).tiff 10,079 × 6,720; 387.6 MB
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Celestial nomad takes centre stage (potw1504a).tiff 4,961 × 3,543; 26.93 MB
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Christmas comet Lovejoy captured at Paranal (eso1153a).tiff 3,000 × 1,800; 7.91 MB
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Christmas comet Lovejoy captured at Paranal (eso1153c).jpg 1,920 × 1,080; 458 KB
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Christmas comet Lovejoy captured at Paranal (eso1153c).tiff 1,920 × 1,080; 1.93 MB
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Christmas Comet Lovejoy seen over Santiago (eso1153b).tiff 2,500 × 1,587; 11.38 MB
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Clusters, Nebulae, and Comets.jpg 8,487 × 9,380; 22.43 MB
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CN emission in comet LINEAR (C-2000 WM1) (eso0329b).jpg 1,004 × 696; 137 KB
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CN emission in comet LINEAR (C-2000 WM1) (eso0329b).tiff 1,004 × 696; 485 KB
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Comet - C2020M3 - Atlas 15x60s ISO800 @ 2020.11.21.jpg 1,920 × 1,920; 2.47 MB
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Comet 1900 II (Borrelly-Brooks), 31 July.jpg 300 × 231; 15 KB
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Comet 1911 S3 Beljawsky.jpg 342 × 427; 21 KB
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Comet 1911 S3 Beljawsky.png 209 × 251; 3 KB
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Comet 1927k Skjellerup by Slipher.jpg 478 × 475; 87 KB
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Comet 1927k Skjellerup photo.jpg 475 × 478; 98 KB
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Comet 1947n.jpg 531 × 690; 82 KB
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Comet 1948l.jpg 1,000 × 777; 241 KB
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Comet 1951a (Pajdusakova).jpg 372 × 358; 59 KB
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Comet 1958e Burnham-Slaughter.jpg 393 × 453; 28 KB
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Comet 1959f Alcock - Roemer.jpg 690 × 488; 27 KB
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Comet 1974b Bradfield 1974-03-23.jpg 650 × 189; 22 KB
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Comet 46P-Wirtanen (D5D1307-CC).tiff 3,430 × 4,016; 19.75 MB
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Comet 46P-Wirtanen (D5D1307-CC-2).jpg 2,235 × 2,617; 1.35 MB
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Comet 46P-Wirtanen (D5D1307-CC-2).tiff 2,235 × 2,617; 8.48 MB
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Comet 9P-Tempel 1 (NTT-EMMI) (eso0518a).tiff 2,476 × 2,454; 6.81 MB
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Comet Alcock 1963b.jpg 725 × 585; 139 KB
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Comet Barnard-Denning.jpg 739 × 602; 31 KB
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Comet Bradfield 1978c.jpg 612 × 420; 47 KB
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Comet Brandfield 6-2-1980 3 00 (UT) by JOCR.jpg 1,167 × 535; 157 KB
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Comet Brooks 1886.jpg 586 × 584; 59 KB
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Comet Burnham 1959k.jpg 322 × 424; 77 KB
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Comet C-1937 N1 Finsler.jpg 450 × 570; 62 KB
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Comet C1947 S1 (Bester).jpg 300 × 207; 9 KB
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Comet C1997 J2 (2MASS).jpg 437 × 431; 119 KB
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Comet C2007F1 (LONEOS) by STEREO - 20071029 120921 s4h2A.jpg 1,024 × 1,024; 560 KB
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Comet C2020 V2 (ZTF) and the southern Pinwheel Galaxy.png 1,300 × 1,730; 3.92 MB
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Comet Components.jpg 909 × 723; 121 KB
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Comet Daniel - 1907.jpg 2,600 × 2,549; 1.58 MB
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Comet Diagram text stripped.png 410 × 277; 21 KB
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Comet Dodwell-Forbes (1932 n).jpg 695 × 274; 126 KB
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Comet dust microscopic photo.jpg 545 × 400; 63 KB
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Comet Fabry.jpg 1,453 × 1,189; 432 KB
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Comet fr.svg 1,240 × 720; 53 KB
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Comet Gale.jpg 1,932 × 2,423; 1,019 KB
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Comet Grigg-Mellish 1907b trail by E.E. Barnard.jpg 377 × 498; 45 KB
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Comet Honda (1955g).jpg 1,197 × 762; 366 KB
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Comet icon.svg 48 × 48; 4 KB
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Comet Ikeya 1963a by R. Burnham, Jr.jpg 602 × 870; 148 KB
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Comet Ikeya 1963a.jpg 722 × 642; 121 KB
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Comet Ikeya 1964f.jpg 482 × 624; 121 KB
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Comet Kiess 1911b.jpg 1,760 × 2,504; 566 KB
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Comet Kobayashi-Berger-Milon JOCR 10 day collage i.jpg 860 × 1,087; 269 KB
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Comet Kosik-Peltier f.25.jpg 1,657 × 1,218; 272 KB
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Comet LINEAR (C-2000 WM1) (eso0329a).tiff 982 × 672; 915 KB
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Comet Lovejoy over Santiago (comet beletsky).tiff 4,000 × 2,665; 15.08 MB
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Comet Mellish 1915.jpg 515 × 752; 86 KB
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Comet Mellish 1917 The Week (Brisbane) 11 May 1917 page 21.jpg 1,086 × 611; 240 KB
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Comet Mrkos 1955e.jpg 677 × 841; 159 KB
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Comet NEOWISE and noctilucent clouds spotted above ESO Headquarters (048A0433-CC).jpg 3,984 × 5,368; 2.76 MB
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Comet NEOWISE and noctilucent clouds spotted above ESO Headquarters (048A0433-CC).tiff 3,984 × 5,368; 122.41 MB
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Comet NEOWISE Spotted above ESO Headquarters (IMG 1798-CC).jpg 4,016 × 6,024; 2.83 MB
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Comet NEOWISE Spotted above ESO Headquarters (IMG 1798-CC).tiff 4,016 × 6,024; 138.47 MB
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Comet Oukaimeden 20140926 160901 s4h1B circle.jpg 1,024 × 1,024; 164 KB
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Comet over Paranal (brammer comets-4).jpg 4,016 × 6,016; 7.25 MB
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Comet over Paranal (brammer comets-4).tiff 4,016 × 6,016; 35.09 MB
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Comet Paraskevopoulos 1941c.jpg 1,000 × 901; 139 KB
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Comet Parts.jpg 1,449 × 2,000; 643 KB
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Comet Parts.svg 1,942 × 2,679; 525 KB
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Comet Peltier 1936a July 12.jpg 671 × 826; 243 KB
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Comet Peltier 1936a.jpg 523 × 652; 136 KB
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Comet Physical Structure.svg 709 × 531; 188 KB
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Comet Seki 1961.jpg 358 × 482; 10 KB
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Comet Seki-Lines.jpg 506 × 863; 136 KB
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Comet Shajn.jpg 427 × 423; 19 KB
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Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 observations (sl-9-timmi-2-single-obs).jpg 5,690 × 5,347; 6.81 MB
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Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 observations (sl-9-timmi-2-single-obs).tiff 5,690 × 5,347; 32.43 MB
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Comet Stearns 1927-03-13.jpg 576 × 477; 97 KB
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Comet streaking across the sky (brammer comets-1).tiff 6,001 × 4,006; 33.77 MB
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Comet streaks over Paranal (brammer comets-5).jpg 6,016 × 4,016; 7.12 MB
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Comet streaks over Paranal (brammer comets-5).tiff 6,016 × 4,016; 36.18 MB
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Comet tail diagram.jpg 900 × 600; 164 KB
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Comet van Gent-Peltier.jpg 460 × 262; 61 KB
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Comet West discovery plate, 1975 (c-west-discovery).tiff 6,333 × 8,000; 37.3 MB
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Comet West, 1976 (c-west-1976-ps).tiff 5,393 × 4,252; 41.34 MB
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Comet West, March 1976 (c-west-mar1976-ps).tiff 3,387 × 4,252; 25.73 MB
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Comet Whipple 1942a.jpg 371 × 372; 83 KB
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Comet Whipple-Fedtke-Tevzadze (1942f).jpg 587 × 582; 177 KB
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Comet Wilk 1929d.jpg 873 × 1,146; 115 KB
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Comet Wilk 1930c.jpg 922 × 497; 184 KB
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Comet Wilk-Peltier.jpg 1,431 × 936; 223 KB
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Comet Wirtanen (eso0206b).gif 400 × 420; 301 KB
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Comet Wirtanen (eso0206b).jpg 400 × 420; 172 KB
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Comet-pl.svg 1,240 × 720; 237 KB
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Comet.svg 1,240 × 720; 284 KB
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Cometa Bakharev-Macfarlane-Krienke (1955f).jpg 1,202 × 770; 387 KB
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Cometa Honda-Bernasconi.jpg 1,142 × 735; 325 KB
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Cometa.png 999 × 671; 316 KB
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CometDiagram.png 410 × 277; 16 KB
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Comete of 1729.jpg 3,500 × 2,842; 7.16 MB
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Cometorbit (1).png 623 × 354; 39 KB
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Cometorbit japanese.png 623 × 354; 666 KB
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Cometorbit Workaround.svg 512 × 291; 8 KB
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Cometorbit-ru.png 623 × 354; 40 KB
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Cometorbit-ru.svg 623 × 354; 263 KB
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Cometorbit.png 623 × 354; 33 KB
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Cometorbit.sk.png 623 × 354; 37 KB
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Cometorbit.svg 623 × 354; 23 KB
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Cometorbit01.svg 623 × 354; 260 KB
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Comets and shooting stars dance over Paranal (potw1310a).tiff 5,828 × 3,891; 33.01 MB
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Comets WISE.jpg 3,754 × 3,004; 1.21 MB
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Comparison of Comet Nucleus Sizes (2022-020).png 2,056 × 1,016; 2.1 MB
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Comparison of Comet Nucleus Sizes (2022-020).tiff 4,111 × 2,031; 7.19 MB
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Comète 8.svg 199 × 198; 9 KB
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Comète Gale, 1912 a.jpg 1,822 × 1,503; 344 KB
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Comète Orkisz (1925 c).jpg 1,319 × 1,667; 297 KB
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Comète Van Gent (1941 d).jpg 1,643 × 2,013; 878 KB
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D203 1907-11-05 1907e Mellish.jpg 5,184 × 3,888; 7.17 MB
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D4306 1932-08-31 1932k Peltier-Whipple.jpg 1,907 × 1,430; 725 KB
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D673 1910-03-09 1909a Borrelly-Daniel.jpg 2,171 × 1,628; 1.41 MB
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Delavan comet.jpg 503 × 769; 304 KB
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Detection of nickel in the atmosphere of interstellar comet 2I-Borisov (eso2108b).tiff 4,000 × 2,500; 8.45 MB
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Diagram from 'Discorso delle Comete' by Galileo Galilei and Mari Guiducci.jpg 1,337 × 1,676; 384 KB
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Eso0329a - Comet LINEAR.jpg 982 × 672; 210 KB
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Euler diagram of solar system bodies-de.svg 635 × 490; 18 KB
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Evolution of comet Tempel 1 (eso0523a).tiff 1,280 × 539; 408 KB
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Evolution of comet Tempel 1 (FORS2-VLT) (eso0523b).jpg 600 × 600; 42 KB
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Evolution of comet Tempel 1 (FORS2-VLT) (eso0523b).tiff 600 × 600; 264 KB
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Finsler Comet 05 01 000094 AP1.jpg 6,000 × 6,227; 7.17 MB
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First ESO image of new comet 1998 P1 (eso9838a).tiff 956 × 955; 1,000 KB
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First ESO image of new comet 1998 P1 (eso9838b).jpg 952 × 954; 449 KB
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First ESO image of new comet 1998 P1 (eso9838b).tiff 952 × 954; 925 KB
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First ESO image of new comet 1998 P1 - Eso9838a.jpg 956 × 955; 529 KB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects (gemini1408a).tiff 1,417 × 680; 1.09 MB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects (gemini1408b).jpg 1,417 × 1,049; 362 KB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects (gemini1408b).tiff 1,417 × 1,049; 1.48 MB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects - Gemini1408a.jpg 1,417 × 680; 226 KB
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Fotothek df tg 0006480 Theosophie ^ Philosophie ^ Astronomie ^ Komet.jpg 519 × 820; 189 KB