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Comet Hale-Bopp

COMET · the great comet of 1997
Comet Hale-Bopp
AI illustration of the real object
VISIBLE 18 months with the naked eye, a recordNUCLEUS unusually huge, about 60 km

The comet a whole generation remembers. Hale-Bopp had an unusually giant nucleus, and it stayed visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months through 1996 and 1997. It showed off two clearly separate tails, a blue gas tail and a curved white dust tail. More people watched Hale-Bopp than any comet in history.

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