To see 惑星 12P/Pons-Brooks, look 西方のs in the night 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
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
Photographer Josh Dury 発射 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 6,?from Compton ツバメ in the Mendip Hills,?Somerset
惑星 12P/Pons-Brooks is one of the brightest known periodic 惑星s, with an 軌道の period of 71 years - meaning chances to see this 反対する are rare
合成物 photo of 12/Pons-Brooks 惑星 taken in Kendal, Cumbria by Stuart Atkinson, Saturday March 16, 2024
The 惑星 突然の brightened almost 100-倍の on October 31 and continued to get brighter in the に引き続いて days. It 示すd the second 爆発 from 12P/Pons-Brooks in a calendar month, and the third since July. It is pictured here on July 27, 2023, a week after its first 爆発
The total solar (太陽,月の)食/失墜 is 述べるd as the event of the 10年間
Some have 推測するd that the horseshoe-like 形態/調整 also 似ているs the Millennium Falcon spaceship in 星/主役にする Wars
12P/Pons-Brooks is what is known as a cryovolcanic ? or 冷淡な 火山 ? 惑星, which means it 展示(する)s 火山の activity. But instead of 噴出するing out molten 激しく揺する and 溶岩 like a 火山 on Earth, a cryovolcanic 惑星 解放(する)s a mixture of gases and ice. によれば an 天文学者, the 惑星 爆発するd on October 31 - the second time in the space of a calendar month
Sketches of 惑星 12P/Pons-Brooks from January 21 and 22, 1884 during one of its rare (一定の)期間s of visibility