Back in October 1965, another Kreutz sungrazer, Comet Ikeya-Seki, became so brilliant that at its peak it reportedly was 10 times brighter than the full moon and was visible even in the daytime ...

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Forty years ago this week, one of the brightest and most spectacular comets ever seen was putting on a memorable show in the morning twilight sky. It came out of nowhere and was described by some ...

A heralded newfound comet may already be breaking up. While skywatchers around the world have been raving about the performance of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, there has been talk on social media of ...

When the comet Ikeya-Seki curved around the sun last October, many a stargazer’s camera was focused on its fiery trail. But two California Institute of Technology researchers were deter mined to ...

A BALLOON-BORNE omnidirectional scintillation detector was aloft over Palestine, Texas (L value about 1.6), during the solar approach of the Ikeya-Seki comet on October 20, 1965. One of the aims ...