Three weeks ago, Comet 17P/Holmes, a periodic planet in our solar system, suddenly became one million times brighter than normal. It began shooting out gas and dust in such volume that it can be seen with the naked eye. According to astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, the comet has become the biggest object in the solar system, bigger than the Sun. Hal Weaver, a planetary astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, advises looking for the comet in the northeastern part of the sky in the constellation Perseus early in the night.
· NASA: Astronomy picture of the day
· NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
· Astrodon - Don Goldman photos
· Astrophotography by David Kodama
· HubbleSite.org
· Sky and Telescope.com
· NASA: Astronomy picture of the day
· NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
· Astrodon - Don Goldman photos
· Astrophotography by David Kodama
· HubbleSite.org
· Sky and Telescope.com
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