Above you'll see Comet 17/P Holmes making its way across the sky. This photo was taken by philliefan_99, who caught this bright image just outside the city a few days after Holmes made an amazing outburst on October 24 -- and by "amazing" we mean it brightened nearly a million times. Though the comet has been close enough to the Earth to be visible through fairly powerful telescopes since July, it's now visible with...
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