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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Sky Show This Month: Little Green Comet Nears Earth


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The central bar of the Milky Way runs through the constellation Cassiopeia as seen from a backyard telescope. From mid-April to mid-May 2009 sky-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere should be able to see the newfound comet Yi-SWAN moving through Cassipoeia into Perseus, astronomers announced.

Photograph courtesy A. Fujii