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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2021 November 21   
      
                             Introducing Comet Leonard   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett   
      
      Explanation: Here comes Comet Leonard. Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was   
      discovered as a faint smudge in January 2021 when it was out past Mars   
      -- but its orbit will take the giant shedding ice-ball into the inner   
      Solar System, passing near both Earth and Venus in December before it   
      swoops around the Sun in early January 2022. Although comets are   
      notoriously hard to predict, some estimations have Comet Leonard   
      brightening to become visible to the unaided eye in December. Comet   
      Leonard was captured just over a week ago already sporting a   
      green-tinged coma and an extended dust tail. The featured picture was   
      composed from 62 images taken through a moderate-sized telescope -- one   
      set of exposures tracking the comet, while another set tracking the   
      background stars. The exposures were taken from the dark skies above   
      the Eastern Sierra Mountains, near June Lake in California, USA. Soon   
      after passing near the Earth in mid-December, the comet will shift from   
      northern to southern skies.   
      
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