A celestial visitor, seen from space

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Dec 22, 2011 10:26 PMNov 20, 2019 5:08 AM

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I know I post a lot of pictures I describe as amazing, lovely, breath-taking, jaw-dropping... but that's only because it's always true. In this case, though, I think those adjectives fall way, way short in describing the seriously paralyzing beauty of this photograph: Comet Lovejoy, as seen by an astronaut on board the International Space Station:

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