#Comets

Today in the history of astronomy, the first person to propose the Oort Cloud is born.

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet, in images taken between 16 and 24 September 2026.

It was identified in Euclid telescope imagery using software designed to detect moving objects.

Despite decades-long searches, we have not yet found signs of extraterrestrial life. Is there value in finding nothing?

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches are more dynamic than we thought

This annual event, which peaks on the night of May 5 into the next morning, comes from the trail of debris left by Halley's comet. It's best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere, but skywatchers in the north can catch a glimpse

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Can you go to them like asteroids also this looks crazy I can see it in the map and I saw a movin star then realised it wasn't apart of the sky box ts is mad

Passing close to a globular cluster in Scutum, compare Comet Tempel 2’s appearance to that of the distant ball of stars.

A strange star sits at the peak of the W in Cassiopeia: Gamma Cas, a binary with a secret only recently uncovered.

A gibbous Moon passes near — or in front of, for some observers — the bright star Regulus, the heart of Leo the Lion.

The next Full Moon of 2026 is the May Flower Moon, which will occur at 1:23 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 1.

The stunning crater Posidonius is placed perfectly for viewing on the lunar disk tonight, now well illuminated by the Sun.

Let the brightest planet guide you to a distant ice giant as the two stand less than a degree apart in the evening sky.

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