Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” could fragment, lose its head and disintegrate and as it passes ...

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"Comets are small celestial bodies, usually made up of rock and ice, which are normally stable in areas far from the sun (for instance in the Kuiper and Oort clouds). Sometimes, something disturbs ...

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Its time for one last look at comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. This long-period comet from the Oort Cloud — a sphere around the solar system that’s home to millions of comets — comet Tsuchinshan ...

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But others would have ended up with orbits like those of the long-period comets. An illustration of the solar system and the Oort Cloud. The numbers on the graph depict AUs, or astronomical units.

It's all thanks to the still-theoretical Oort Cloud, which is near the the edge of our solar system, beyond Pluto. According to James Ray of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Oort Cloud is ...

(Comets that take longer than 200 years to complete an orbit are called long-period comets, and originate from deep within the distant Oort Cloud.) In 2P/Encke's case, it orbits every 3.3 years ...