On March 24, 1997, Hale-Bopp – described by one astronomer as looking like “a dirty snowball” – was visible in the night skies over Staten Island, even though the comet was about 122.2 ...

The crews of both NASA’s Skylab 4 and the Soviet Union’s Soyuz 13 missions reported seeing it. ... Arizona, independently discovered Comet Hale-Bopp July 23, 1995.

Had comet K2 PanSTARRS entered deep into the inner solar system like Hale-Bopp in the late 1990s, then we would be in for a truly spectacular show. Ironically, Hale-Bopp passed us about six months ...

Comet Hale-Bopp: Discovered independently by Alan Hale, New Mexico and Thomas Bopp, Arizona on July 23, 1995, when they spotted this unusually bright comet outside of Jupiter's orbit, Comet Hale ...

When you hear “naked-eye” comet, a few others come to mind, including Comet Hale-Bopp’s flyby in 1997 and Halley’s Comet, which astronomers have documented for 2,000 years.

Hale-Bopp is no competition for Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. Credit: NASA / ESA / Zena Levy ... NASA’s Stardust mission brought back samples from Comet Wild-2 to Earth in 2006.

It will get much closer to the sun, passing within 21 million miles (nearly 34 million kilometers) of the star on September 17, according to Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp and founder ...

NASA said it’s highly unlikely Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible in daylight hours, except perhaps at twilight. In the past 300 years of astronomical observation, ... Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997.

The comet won’t swing close to Earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020 and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the 1990s. Comet SWAN with its streaming ...