Comet Lulin

Well it looks like we may have a new visitor to our solar system. But don't expect it to hang around long... Comet Lulin was discovered by a 19 year old student in China in July of 2007, and we're likely to see it in the night sky from the 23rd through the beginning of March. Well at least those of us with binoculars...

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/24/how-to-see-comet-lulin/


On a sidenote, I find it fascinating that some comets have an "anti-tail" or ion tail in this one, that points in the opposite direction in which the comet is moving. You can see it in the above image as a bluish cloud on the right side of the comet. I wonder how that all works...