Credit: NASA
Comet 103P/Hartley 2. Credit: Mike Broussard
A pair of unusual fireballs over Canada and the southeastern USA have experts wondering if Comet Hartley 2 might produce a meteor shower in early November.(read more)
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Spiral Galaxies Stripped Bare
Credit: ESO Photo Release eso1042
Credit: ESO/P. Grosbøl
Six spectacular spiral galaxies are seen in a clear new light in images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The pictures were taken in infrared light, using the impressive power of the HAWK-I camera, and will help astronomers understand how the remarkable spiral patterns in galaxies form and evolve. (read more)
