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Brighter Comet Now Visible to Naked Eye

November 9, 2007 - 12:00am
By Venus Wu

Correction appended. See below.

Since its discovery in 1892, Comet Holmes has not drawn much attention. However, the comet’s recent “explosion” on Oct. 23 has increased its brightness more than half a million times. The comet has now become the latest sensation among amateur and professional astronomers at Cornell and worldwide.

The comet, which was previously invisible to the unaided eye, can now be easily seen.

“It is visible in the constellation of Perseus, which rises in the Northeast in early evening. It’s very high in the North sky at around midnight, and it forms a nice triangle with two of the brightest stars in Perseus,” said Michael Roman ’06, radiophysics and space research.