SPACEMAS DAY 8 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕
On December 4, periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was found sharing this telescopic field of view with Vega, alpha star of the northern constellation Lyra. As the fifth brightest star in Earth's night sky, Vega is 25 light-years away while the much fainter comet was about 21 light-minutes away. In recent months, outbursts have caused dramatic increases in brightness for the comet. A Halley-type comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks last visited the inner Solar System in 1954. Its next perihelion passage or closest approach to the Sun will be April 21, 2024. That's just two weeks after the April 8 total solar eclipse path crosses North America.
Image Credit: Dan Bartlett
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woah it’s magnus?? (and alex too ofc)
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Oh! For a request how about Hally? The most famous comet.
Sorry for taking awhile, I had to do a mini comic of this!
I picture outgassing (aka the comet’s tail that forms when they’re closer to the sun) is a painful process for comets. Halley would look mighty different when further away from the sun
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Heads up if you want to see a meteor shower!!
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Searching for Halley's Comet at Greenwich Observatory (1909)
This light-hearted take on astronomy's endless quest for bigger and better telescopes illustrates the growing popular interest in astronomy, particularly surrounding events such as the return of Halley’s Comet, and demonstrates that the Royal Observatory has long been intimately connected in the popular imagination with such important moments in astronomy
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Halley’s Comet x Do I Wanna Know?
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this is one of billie’s best songs and i stand by that statement wholeheartedly
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This song. There are actual tears in my eyes. It feels like such a cathartic release of emotions. The instrumental is beautiful, the melody, the VOCALS. I am in awe.
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what a drag to love you like I do 🖤
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Inktober 2023 Day 3 is Path. Originally thought about doing a standard forest path, but changed my mind, and did the path that Halley’s Comet takes around the solar system instead.
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march writing challenge 2023 - day 4
the last song you listened to
I don’t want you
but I want the breeze
the stars
you in my arms
as an afterthought
(my only thought)
the sky is the same
Though you and I have grown
up, around and into it
I’ll be back,
the next time a comet
slips gently across the sky
see me in it
@deity-prompts credit for the prompts list
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“I don't want to want you, But in my dreams I seem to be more honest- And I must admit, you've been in quite a few.
Halley's Comet
Comes around more than I do. . . But you're all it takes for me to break a promise. Silly me, to fall in love with you.
… I haven't slept since Sunday. Midnight for me is 3:00 a.m. for you. But my sleepless nights are better, With you than nights could ever be alone… I was good at feeling nothing, now I'm hopeless; What a drag to love you like I do.
I've been loved before, but right now in this moment. I feel more and more like I was made for you.
For you
I'm sitting in my brother's room; Haven't slept in a week or two, (or two). I think I might have fallen in love…What am I to do?”
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4:20 pm, ph time | 25th of june ‘22
it’s been quite a long time since my last post! and… i drew billie again because im so happy i got HTE tickets here in Manila!
See you (finally!) Billie 🤍
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