comet

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"The irony is now we're just studying a regular comet and it crumbles in front of our eyes," said principal investigator Dennis Bodewits, also a professor in Auburn University's Department of Physics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Noonan did not realize the comet was breaking up until he reviewed the images the following day.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

New research shows that the structure formed when an asteroid or comet struck the region roughly 43 to 46 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

Swift detected hydroxyl when the comet was nearly three times farther from the Sun than Earth is, well beyond the region where surface ice would normally turn directly into vapor.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

It screamed and fled into the trees like a wounded comet.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray