The fireball was detected by the satellite on June 26, 2025, above the town of Oxford, Georgia, using an instrument to map ...

Comet Encke is the so-called parent comet of the Taurid meteors. It’s relatively small, just over 3 miles (almost 5 kilometers) in diameter, and crosses inside Earth’s orbit and back out every ...

IT may interest those who possess small telescopes to know that this comet is now within the range of instruments of moderate apertures. On November 10 I had a very satisfactory view of it, with a ...

Comet Encke is the so-called parent comet of the Taurid meteors. It’s relatively small, just over 3 miles (almost 5 kilometers) in diameter, and crosses inside Earth’s orbit and back out every ...

Comet Encke is the so-called parent comet of the Taurid meteors. It’s relatively small, just over 3 miles (almost 5 kilometers) in diameter, and crosses inside Earth’s orbit and back out every ...

The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.

Thought by some astronomers to be a piece of a larger comet that broke up tens of thousands of years ago, Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within the solar system, taking 3 ...

This is about half the speed of the Perseids. A recent theory as to why Encke has such a large debris stream is that it was once part of a larger comet that broke up about 20,000 years ago.

Comet Encke was first discovered in 1786, though its orbit wasn’t calculated until 1819 by Johann Franz Encke, the comet’s namesake, according to NASA.

Here we go!Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) could become a -6.7 mag daytime object on the 28th, albeit, it will be very close to the sun at the time, and all caution must be taken.