Comet's Galactic 'Fly-By' Snapped By Spacecraft | Video
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's NEOWISE snapped a series of infrared images of C/2012 K1 (aka Pan-STARRS) in May 2014, when the comet was ~143 million miles away. The spiral galaxy, NGC 3726, is 55 million light years away, in the constellation Ursa Major.