Sure! Here are some fascinating facts about comets: 1. **Cosmic Snowballs**: Comets are often described as "cosmic snowballs" made of frozen gases, rock, and dust. They are remnants from the early solar system, formed about 4.6 billion years ago¹. 2. **Structure**: A comet has four main parts: the nucleus, coma, dust tail, and ion tail. The nucleus is the solid core, while the coma is a cloud of gas and dust that forms around the nucleus when the comet is close to the Sun². 3. **Tails**: Comets have two types of tails - a dust tail and an ion tail. The dust tail is made of small solid particles, while the ion tail is composed of gases that have been ionized by the Sun's radiation³. 4. **Orbits**: Comets have highly elliptical orbits, which means they can travel very far from the Sun and then come very close to it. Some comets take hundreds or even thousands of years to complete one orbit². 5. **Famous Comets**: Some well-known comets include Halley's Comet, which is visible from Earth every 75-76 years, and Comet Hale-Bopp, which was visible to the naked eye for 18 months in the late 1990s³. 6. **Origins**: Most comets originate from two regions in the outer solar system: the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud. The Kuiper Belt is beyond Neptune, while the Oort Cloud is a distant spherical shell surrounding the solar system¹. 7. **Comet Count**: As of now, there are over 6,000 known comets, but it's estimated that there could be up to a trillion comets in the Oort Cloud alone³. Comets are truly fascinating celestial objects that offer a glimpse into the early solar system. Have you ever seen a comet yourself?
SpaceX shows video feed of space and all you can see is darkness around the Earth and the Sun, even on the dark side of the Earth everything looks dark, and this video shows stars all around, why?
Research how camera exposure works. The live feed is likely 30-60fps, which means each frame is capturing 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. This does not allow very much time for light to reach the sensor, and relatively dim objects like stars will not show up. A time lapse is stitching together many, many frames at much longer exposure to allow dimmer objects (like the stars, comet, and aurora) to fully expose.
Some pretty cool Northern lights, I saw, as well as the Comet!
Thank you Mr. Mathew Dominick the Astronaut for this beautiful footage and Video From Space for airing this reel. Astonishing!
Thats incredible footage
Sure! Here are some fascinating facts about comets:
1. **Cosmic Snowballs**: Comets are often described as "cosmic snowballs" made of frozen gases, rock, and dust. They are remnants from the early solar system, formed about 4.6 billion years ago¹.
2. **Structure**: A comet has four main parts: the nucleus, coma, dust tail, and ion tail. The nucleus is the solid core, while the coma is a cloud of gas and dust that forms around the nucleus when the comet is close to the Sun².
3. **Tails**: Comets have two types of tails - a dust tail and an ion tail. The dust tail is made of small solid particles, while the ion tail is composed of gases that have been ionized by the Sun's radiation³.
4. **Orbits**: Comets have highly elliptical orbits, which means they can travel very far from the Sun and then come very close to it. Some comets take hundreds or even thousands of years to complete one orbit².
5. **Famous Comets**: Some well-known comets include Halley's Comet, which is visible from Earth every 75-76 years, and Comet Hale-Bopp, which was visible to the naked eye for 18 months in the late 1990s³.
6. **Origins**: Most comets originate from two regions in the outer solar system: the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud. The Kuiper Belt is beyond Neptune, while the Oort Cloud is a distant spherical shell surrounding the solar system¹.
7. **Comet Count**: As of now, there are over 6,000 known comets, but it's estimated that there could be up to a trillion comets in the Oort Cloud alone³.
Comets are truly fascinating celestial objects that offer a glimpse into the early solar system. Have you ever seen a comet yourself?
Amazing footage.
Amazing! Especially considering that it is on its way to encounter the sun so close to
it already passed the sun on the 27th I think
Truly beautiful ❤️
Amazing.
Woooooowwwwww......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mr Dominick, “Comet the hour, comet the man”
I wish this was a short soo that I can watch it in a never ending loop.
Cool!!
Many Thanks 🎉
I watched the c omet but c ouldnt photo it! Thank u!
Beautiful ❤
Beautiful ❤
In 80 000 years from now it will return. Will it look the same? Will we? 😁
Very nice
we got videos like this like seeing it in person on the ground could compare
What is the source of this footage ?
Is the red mass also considered 'aurora'? My camera found it rather high up, way down in southern Okla
Wow
Beautiful!
Make a wish right now(wish right now)
Does anyone know why it goes up and then down again?
I wish they didn't edit music in
NASA smudges camera.
These are the signs of the times and the reckoning is approaching
No
so fake.
Proof?
SpaceX shows video feed of space and all you can see is darkness around the Earth and the Sun, even on the dark side of the Earth everything looks dark, and this video shows stars all around, why?
Research how camera exposure works. The live feed is likely 30-60fps, which means each frame is capturing 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. This does not allow very much time for light to reach the sensor, and relatively dim objects like stars will not show up. A time lapse is stitching together many, many frames at much longer exposure to allow dimmer objects (like the stars, comet, and aurora) to fully expose.