Date
  
GMT                    Bright Comets
   Bright Comets 

Comet Hyakutake / March 25, 1996 /
.... Hyakutake

The Great Comet Hale-Bopp 1997 !
...... Hale-Bopp

Comet Ikeya-Zhang 2002
Ikeya-Zhang

 

Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
Comet C 2001 Q4 

 Comet 17P/Holmes, November 2007
Comet Holmes

   Comet Lulin (official designation C/2007 N3 (Lulin)
 C/2007 N3 (Lulin)

 

   
   Halley comet and the Giotto spacecraft
 Halley's Comet

 

Comet PANSTARRS the spring of 2013

Comet PanSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy

Comet PANSTARRS Meets the Andromeda Galaxy

 

On July 4, 2005, Deep Impact's impactor spacecraft Smashes Into Comet Tempel 1 !!


Tempel 1

 

On January 2, 2004, the spacecraft "Stardust" flew within 236 km of Comet Wild 2!!


Stardust - Comet Wild 2

 

The lander of Rosetta spacecraft successfully landed on the surface comet 67P

 

Comet 67P
 Where is Comet 67P now?
Where is the Rosetta spacecraft right now?   
 


  Visual Comets in the Future (Northern Hemisphere)
 
Memorable Comets

Igor Abakumov  
  January 18, 2021