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The PAN-STARRS heart diagram comet, or C/2011 L-4 as it s known by stargazers, heart diagram will make its way across the Austin skies around 30 to 40 minutes after sunset tonight which is at 7:37 p.m, according to the National Weather Service .
Austinites should heart diagram be able to see the comet with the naked eye for next few nights, but Rebecca heart diagram Johnson, editor of StarDate Magazine , says the comet will grow dimmer with each passing night and fading out in about three to four days.
I would advise heart diagram folks to go somewhere heart diagram where you have an unobstructed view of the horizon, with a clear view to the west, Johnson says. Binoculars might be a good thing to pull out of the closet, if you ve got them. You ll be much better able to see the tail with binoculars.
Dr. Anita Cochran is one a research scientist at the University of Texas and is assistant director of the McDonald Observatory. She says the comet is as close to Earth as any in recent memory heart diagram the same distance from Mercury. heart diagram But the comet s proximity isn t something to worry about.
This comet was formed four and a half billion years ago the same time the solar system was formed and has been sitting out in the deep freeze of space for a long time and something sent it our way, Cochran says. That something is the gravitational pressures in the galaxy that are like tides, Cochran adds.
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Formula 1 What Austin s Doing and Isn t Doing for F1 After Last Year Life & Arts Breaking Bad Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White, LBJ and the JFK Assassination Halloween Floods How You Can Help Austin's Flood Victims (Update)
Terrence Henry
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The PAN-STARRS heart diagram comet, or C/2011 L-4 as it s known by stargazers, heart diagram will make its way across the Austin skies around 30 to 40 minutes after sunset tonight which is at 7:37 p.m, according to the National Weather Service .
Austinites should heart diagram be able to see the comet with the naked eye for next few nights, but Rebecca heart diagram Johnson, editor of StarDate Magazine , says the comet will grow dimmer with each passing night and fading out in about three to four days.
I would advise heart diagram folks to go somewhere heart diagram where you have an unobstructed view of the horizon, with a clear view to the west, Johnson says. Binoculars might be a good thing to pull out of the closet, if you ve got them. You ll be much better able to see the tail with binoculars.
Dr. Anita Cochran is one a research scientist at the University of Texas and is assistant director of the McDonald Observatory. She says the comet is as close to Earth as any in recent memory heart diagram the same distance from Mercury. heart diagram But the comet s proximity isn t something to worry about.
This comet was formed four and a half billion years ago the same time the solar system was formed and has been sitting out in the deep freeze of space for a long time and something sent it our way, Cochran says. That something is the gravitational pressures in the galaxy that are like tides, Cochran adds.
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