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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2024 June 28   
      
                                 Comet 13P/Olbers   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett`   
      
      Explanation: Not a paradox, Comet 13P/Olbers is returning to the inner   
      Solar System after 68 years. The periodic, Halley-type comet will reach   
      its next perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on June 30 and has   
      become a target for binocular viewing low in planet Earth's northern   
      hemisphere night skies. But this sharp telescopic image of 13P is   
      composed of stacked exposures made on the night of June 25. It easily   
      reveals shifting details in the bright comet's torn and tattered ion   
      tail buffeted by the wind from an active Sun, along with a broad,   
      fanned-out dust tail and slightly greenish coma. The frame spans over   
      two degrees across a background of faint stars toward the constellation   
      Lynx.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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