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Magellanic Clouds

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IC 2118, Witch Head Nebula

Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903 : It isn’t every night that a comet passes a galaxy. Last Thursday, though, binocular comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) moved nearly in front of a spiral galaxy of approximately the same brightness: NGC 2903. Comet Iwamoto was discovered late last year and orbits the Sun in a long ellipse. It last visited the inner Solar System during the Middle Ages, around the year 648. The comet reached its closest point to the Sun – between Earth and Mars – on February 6, and its closest point to Earth a few days ago, on February 13. The featured time-lapse video condenses almost three hours into about ten seconds, and was captured last week from Switzerland. At that time Comet Iwamoto, sporting a green coma, was about 10 light minutes distant, while spiral galaxy NGC 2903 remained about 30 million light years away. Two satellites zip diagonally through the field about a third of the way through the video. Typically, a few comets each year become as bright as Comet Iwamoto. via NASA

Image credit: Maicon Germiniani

Astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, 1890-1920

Credit: Kevin Morefield

Credit: Jerry Lodriguss

High Life (2018) dir. Claire Denis

High Life (2018) dir. Claire Denis

Barnard 33, Horsehead Nebula

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