modelled from the comet's present-day orbital data. Ancient Chinese records of comet observations are the most extensive historical records in existence. They...

837 owing to a close approach to Earth in that year. It was necessary to use ancient Chinese comet observations to constrain their calculations. Halley's...

attributed to Chinese observations of a guest star in AD 1054 (see SN 1054) is missing from the European records. Historical comet observations in China – Overview...

the observations, but a retrograde orbit is inferred based on available notes. The comet approached Earth both inbound in mid-May and outbound in early...

sungrazers are comets observed in 582 AD in China and Europe, X/1381 V1 which was seen from Japan, Korea, Russia and Egypt, two comets seen in 1668 and 1695...

Comets have been observed by humanity for thousands of years, but only in the past few centuries have they been studied as astronomical phenomena. Before...

Zodiacal light, comets, and meteors (cf. Historical comet observations in China). Early astronomers were interested in understanding these phenomena. Zodiacal...

prognostications, Roeslin had picked out just the two comets, the Great Comet of 1556 and 1580. Roeslin responded in 1609 that this was indeed what he had done....

comet recorded in Chinese sources in September 245 CE. So-Yeon Park & Jong-Chul Chae (2007) suggested that comet 12P/Pons–Brooks was also the comets recorded...

sparkle like a star and did not move across the heavens like a comet. These observations are consistent with the appearance of a supernova, and this is...