This year, 12P/Pons-Brooks will arrive at perihelion on April 21, but it is already up to its old tricks regarding sudden flare-ups in brightness. You might get a chance to catch sight of a comet ...

The comet 12P/Pons-Brooks takes 71 years to fly around the sun and will next reach perihelion — the point in its elliptical orbit when it's closest to the sun — on April 21.

Astronomers have observed the comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, and its so-called "outbursts" – sudden, large releases of dust and gas – and some say it looks like Star Wars' Millennium Falcon or even a ...

Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks, which makes an appearance in the inner solar system every 71 years, will have its closest approach to the sun just two weeks after the eclipse on April 21.

Pons-Brooks certainly has more in store for us as next spring and its stunning solar eclipse approach. Up Next Previous. Next. Observing. The Sky Today on Wednesday, June 18: Vesta sits stationary.

The comet's approach toward Earth coincides with a total solar eclipse on April 8. Around that time, 12P/Pons-Brooks will be at or near perihelion, the point during orbit when it's closest to the sun.

Image of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. The Mount Everest-sized comet is due to make its closest approach to the sun on 21 April. Stuart Atkinson. 12P/Pons-Brooks is a periodic comet: it regularly orbits ...

Time is running out for you to spot Pons-Brooks, the devil-horned comet that swoops into view once every 71 years. Last visible to people on Earth in the 1950s, the comet is prone to outbursts, or ...

12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type comet, meaning it has an orbital period on the scale of decades. In this case, it returns to the inner solar system every 70 years – the last time it swung ...

Pons-Brooks has a rotation period of 57 hours, which is longer than expected, and astronomers want to know if the jets of material releasing from the comet are speeding it up or slowing it down. ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks photographed in March 2024. This comet will be best visible this weekend as it approaches its closest point to the sun. Nielander via Wikimedia Commons ...

Comet Pons-Brooks was last seen in 1954 before returning last summer. Like the famed Halley’s comet, Pons-Brooks is a “short-period” comet that periodically visits our part of the solar system.