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The View Toward M101
Comet Catalina, with its dust and ion tails clearly separated, swept past Earth on January 17, 2016. In this image, it appears near the grand spiral galaxy M101 in Ursa Major. M101 is nearly twice the size of our Milky Way and sits about 27 million light-years away. Both the comet and the distant galaxy are still in motion, though on vastly different timescales.
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In tropical astrology, 21 JAN 2016 falls under Aquarius (♒). The sign's window runs from 01-20 through 02-18. Aquarius is home to the Helix Nebula, the closest planetary nebula to Earth. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 21 JAN 2016.