Comet: The rare bright comets shine southern hemisphere sky

March 14 message, according to the National Geographic Web site reported this month, Pan-STARRS, a comet from a distant and cold edge of the solar system, rushed into the sun flashed bright light, attracting everyone's attention, occupy the major news a prominent position. From March 10, the comet gradually into the Northern Hemisphere sky, along with a lot of gas and dust from the comet erupted, the brightness of comets is expected to rise further, all of these evaporation and dust ejected gaseous substances eventually formed the rear of the tail of a comet.


Comet Pan-STARRS was first established by an asteroid monitoring project in Hawaii, United States discovered and named 2011. At that time, the comet is running between Jupiter and Saturn. Two years after the comet when compared brightness has increased by hundreds of times, and to successfully survive intimate contact with the sun. The best observation position of the comet in the southern hemisphere, so the observer who live in the southern hemisphere to be shooting a number of high-quality photos of the comet, people feast for the eyes.


Comet in the sky, on the ground of astronomy enthusiasts vigilant, ready to capture this "snow-ball" figure in the sky - such as Alex Cheney (Alex Cherney) from Melbourne, Australia. He was one of the first one of the observations of the comet Pan-STARRS photo taken when the comet is rapidly approaching the sun.