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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Saturday July 11, entitled "The Tails of Comet NEOWISE."
Image: The Tails of Comet NEOWISE recorded from Brno, Czech Republic before daybreak on July 10, 2020 - Image Credit & Copyright Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology)

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"Explanation: Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is now sweeping through northern skies. Its developing tails stretch some six degrees across this telescopic field of view, recorded from Brno, Czech Republic before daybreak on July 10. Pushed out by the pressure of sunlight itself, the comet's broad, yellowish dust tail is easiest to see. But the image also captures a fainter, more bluish tail too, separate from the reflective comet dust. The fainter tail is an ion tail, formed as ions from the cometary coma are dragged outward by magnetic fields in the solar wind and fluoresce in the sunlight. In this sharp portrait of our new visitor from the outer Solar System, the tails of comet NEOWISE are reminiscent of the even brighter tails of Hale Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997."

Here is a tongue firmly in cheek tune form the youth of many of us :-)

The Comet Song
The original Comet Song!
Sung by my awesome cousin Lindsey,
to the song, "Colonel Bogey March"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDQ99N0-Ds
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Excellent astronomy share sir, have a blessed Sunday sir .
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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That is one hell of a shot.
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