Comets
16 comets in our database.
Halley
The most famous comet, visible from Earth every 75-79 years. Last appeared in 19...
2,680 million km from the SunCometHale-Bopp
One of the brightest comets of the 20th century, visible to the naked eye for 18...
28,600 million km from the SunCometChuryumov-Gerasimenko
Comet 67P, famous for being visited by ESA Rosetta mission (2014-2016). Rosetta ...
518 million km from the SunCometNeowise
A spectacular comet visible to the naked eye in July 2020. Discovered by NASA NE...
4,500 million km from the SunCometShoemaker-Levy 9
The comet that famously crashed into Jupiter in July 1994. Had been captured by ...
CometEncke
Has the shortest orbital period of any known comet at 3.3 years. Second comet id...
510 million km from the SunCometTempel 1
Target of NASA Deep Impact mission in 2005, which launched an impactor into its ...
313 million km from the SunCometSwift-Tuttle
Parent of the August Perseids, the richest annual meteor shower. Its 26 km nucle...
3,900 million km from the SunCometHyakutake
Surprise visitor of 1996, discovered with binoculars six weeks before passing 15...
CometBorrelly
Its bowling-pin nucleus was resolved by Deep Space 1 in 2001, among the earliest...
540 million km from the SunCometWild 2
Stardust flew through its coma in 2004 and returned comet grains to Earth in 200...
515 million km from the SunCometHolmes
Faint until it erupted a millionfold brighter in 42 hours in October 2007, becom...
541 million km from the SunCometIkeya-Seki
The brightest comet of the 20th century, visible in daylight in 1965. A Kreutz s...
CometISON
The comet of the century that was not, crumbling hours after passing 1.9 million...
CometLovejoy
The Christmas comet of 2011, a Kreutz sungrazer that survived flying 140,000 km ...
Comet2I/Borisov
The first known interstellar comet, confirmed as a visitor from another star in ...