💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

Sad news on the comets-ml list today - Alan Hale (a great comet observer and co-discoverer of Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp) died today. Vale Alan, ad astra.

https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35420
#comets #astronomy

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here's why that's weird

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-is-blasting-out-a-bunch-of-methane-heres-why-thats-weird

The breezy Californian patio I'm on now is *nice*, don't get me wrong...but I'd really rather be here tonight. "Dancing into the Comets", as painted by yours truly.

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #comets #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dance #dancer #dancing

The comet that appeared over Augsburg in November, 1577. (1577).

Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/14f2d55d-d158-401b-8f5f-a378cf7bd1ee

#eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #buildings #protestant-reformation #comets #art #publicdomain

#brautigan
#beat
#refrigerator
#pumpkins
#comets

There is darkness on your lantern and pumpkins in your wind.
and Oh, they clutter up your mind
with their senseless bumping
while your heart is like a sea gull
frozen into a long distance telephone
call.

I’d like to take the darkness
off your lantern and change the pumpkins
into sky fields of ordered comets
and disconnect the refrigerator telephone
that frightens your heart into standing
still.
Brautigan, Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

#eM