Mysteries of the sungrazers
Jan 09, 2019
3 minutes
by David Seargent
Although February and March 2019 do not hold any promise for comets within the visual range of small telescopes (at the time of writing), these months have in times past seen some of the brightest comets ever recorded — members of (or, in some instances, suspected members of) the famous Kreutz group of sungrazing objects.
Long ago, in February 1106, a comet blazed in full daylight “one foot and a half” from the Sun and a few days later extended a magnificent tail across
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