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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.   
      
                                  2022 January 3   
      
                             Comet Leonard's Long Tail   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Hattenbach   
      
      Explanation: You couldn't see Comet Leonard's extremely long tail with   
      a telescope -- it was just too long. You also couldn't see it with   
      binoculars -- still too long. Or with your eyes -- it was too dim. Or   
      from a city -- the sky was too bright. But from a dark location with a   
      low horizon -- your camera could. And still might -- if the comet   
      survives today's closest encounter with the Sun, which occurs between   
      the orbits of Mercury and Venus. The featured picture was created from   
      two deep and wide-angle camera images taken from La Palma in the Canary   
      Islands of Spain late last month. Afterwards, if it survives, what is   
      left of Comet Leonard's nucleus will head out of our Solar System,   
      never to return.   
      
                      Tomorrow's picture: moons beyond rings   
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