Ron Oliversen, a NASA scientist working with Scherb ... The co-discoverer of comet Hale-Bopp was riding the wave of media frenzy on this, the day his comet would make its closest approach to ...
The researchers said that only one other comet - Hale-Bopp, discovered by amateur astronomers in 1995 - had exhibited similarly polarised light.
The small photos of Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp in the initial color astrophoto montage do not do them justice. Here they have been reprocessed for a larger display. The photo of Comet ...