comet

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If fresh ice was exposed, why did the comet not brighten right away?

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Noonan did not realize the comet was breaking up until he reviewed the images the following day.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

"The irony is now we're just studying a regular comet and it crumbles in front of our eyes," said principal investigator Dennis Bodewits, also a professor in Auburn University's Department of Physics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Even at that distance, the comet was losing water at a rate of about 40 kilograms per second, comparable to water blasting from a fully opened fire hose.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

As far as we know, no one had actually tried to measure the parallax of a comet before 1471; it had simply been assumed that the Aristotelian theory was obviously correct.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton