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Feb 24, 2009
Comet Lulin Reaches Closest Point to Earth Tonight
Photo of Comet Lulin by jpstanley, used under a Creative Commons license. Click through to see the process he used to make the image. You can look up at the sky during almost any time of year and see some kind of astronomical occurrence — meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, lunar and solar eclipses, and, for those of us in D.C., the well-known sight of the twice annual moon rising in line with the monuments….