How to see a once-in-a-lifetime green 惑星: Space 激しく揺する dubbed the 'Mother of Dragons' is now 明白な in the night sky - here's the best time to 位置/汚点/見つけ出す it before it 消えるs for another 70 years

  • 惑星 12P/Pons-Brooks is viewable from the northern 半球 in 早期に April
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Before Monday's?solar (太陽,月の)食/失墜 happens, eagle 注目する,もくろむd skygazers will have a once-in-a-lifetime 適切な時期 to see a rare green 惑星, dubbed the 'Mother of Dragons', in the night's sky.

によれば 天文学者s,?惑星 12P/Pons?Brooks is viewable at night from the northern 半球 in 早期に April.?

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Larger than 開始する エベレスト, it should appear as a green blob with a 煙霧のかかった tail as it makes its first visit to the inner solar system in 71 years.?

To see?惑星 12P/Pons-Brooks, look 西方のs in the night's sky and find?the 星座 of 星/主役にするs known as Aries the 押し通す, which forms a loose V-形態/調整.?

Over the next few weeks it will keep moving west に向かって Orion, the 星座 that looks like the 広大な/多数の/重要な mythical hunter.?

To see 惑星 12P/Pons-Brooks, look 西方のs in the night sky and find the constell ation of 星/主役にするs known as Aries the 押し通す, which forms a loose V-形態/調整. Over the next few weeks it will keep moving west に向かって Orion, the 星座 that looks like the 広大な/多数の/重要な mythical hunter
Amateur 天文学者s have already been snapping photos of the 惑星 with specialist telescopes. This image is a 合成物 of three colours, showing the 惑星's ever-changing イオン tail in light blue, its outer 昏睡 in green, and 最高潮の場面s some red-glowing gas around the 昏睡 in a spiral. The spiral is thought to be 原因(となる)d by gas 存在 expelled by 反対する's slowly 回転/交替ing 核

12P/Pons-Brooks: 重要な facts?

Discovered:?July 12, 1812

軌道の period: 71 years

Type of 惑星: Cryovolcanic

Last perihelion:?May 22, 1954

Next?perihelion:?April 21, 2024

核 直径: 18.6 miles (30 km)

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