{"id":60438,"date":"2024-06-17T07:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T07:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a68bb6fb-2038-445d-af33-f5aa122e222a"},"modified":"2024-06-17T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:39:41","slug":"comet-12p-pons-brooks-tail-visible-in-the-southern-hemisphere-sky-captured-over-chiles-atacama-desert","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/comet-12p-pons-brooks-tail-visible-in-the-southern-hemisphere-sky-captured-over-chiles-atacama-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks’ tail visible in the Southern Hemisphere sky, captured over Chile’s Atacama Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Iain Todd\n <\/p>

Published: Monday, 17 June 2024 at 07:36 AM<\/p>

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Northern Hemisphere observers will fondly remember the appearance of Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks in our skies, as the Devil Comet became one of the big highlights of a wonderful array of comets visible during the first half of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>

The comet even made an appearance during the 8 April eclipse<\/a>, as something of a grand finale before its final exit.<\/p>

Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks<\/a> disappeared from our skies as April 2024 drew to a close, and is now visible in the Southern Hemisphere night sky, as this image from comet-chaser Jos\u00e9 J. Chamb\u00f3 shows.<\/p>

Jos\u00e9 captured it from the Atacama Desert, world-famous as an astronomical dark-sky site and home of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and ALMA array.<\/p>

Comet 12P\/Pons\u2013Brooks in the Southern Hemisphere sky, captured remotely over the Atacama Desert, Chile by Jos\u00e9 J. Chamb\u00f3. Click to expand. Credit: Jos\u00e9 J. Chamb\u00f3 (www.cometografia.es)<\/figcaption><\/figure>

“Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks continues to offer its spectacle from the Southern Hemisphere,” Jos\u00e9 says.<\/p>

“In this image, taken remotely on 29 May 2024 from the Atacama Desert, I finally achieved the freedom to capture a clear view of the display of tails emanating from its greenish coma.<\/p>

“The bluish and structured ion tail to the left, the broad dust tail fanning out 180 degrees towards the top, and the anti-tail pointing like a narrow beam of light to the right.”<\/p>

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