Image by Damian Peach of the Space Exploration Network (SEN), taken from the NASA website.
Comet Lovejoy has been in the news lately, being visible to the naked eye, and expected to be at its brightest in the first two weeks of January. This celestial survivor was first spotted on the December 2, 2011 by an amateur astronomer named Terry Lovejoy. It was expected to head into our Sun and be destroyed, as are many small comets.
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