Thursday, November 15, 2007

Comet Holmes > the Sun

The comet I mentioned a few weeks back...keeps growing/exploding/transforming. The coma surrounding the nucleus now has a larger diameter than the sun, technically making it the largest object in the solar system ( by apparent size, not by mass). It's by no means the brightest thing in the sky, so you need some fancy equipment with a lot of zeroes in the pricetag to appreciate it firsthand. But, still, crikey. Unicron wouldn't stand a chance.

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