A cluster of comets will be invading the inner solar system and you can watch them shoot through space live during a Slooh Space Camera collaboration show starting at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT.
It is rather rare to be able to witness this many comets within such a short timeframe. Slooh will be watching all the action from their telescope in the Canary Islands. On hand to discuss the event will be Slooh’s own Patrick Paolucci along with Bob Berman from Astronomy magazine and comet hunter Don Machholz. He has discovered 11 comets, including one of the ones that will be tracked in the show, 96P/Machholz.
Comets are balls of dirty ice that are remnants of the solar system’s earliest days. Most originate in the distant regions of the solar system, far from the sun’s heat, which would dissolve them into nothingness. As they come into the inner solar system, the solar wind melts a long and spectacular tail of ice and snow, which viewers on Earth have often marveled at.
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