Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. As the comet descends into murky twilight for northern hemisphere observers it will become increasingly easy to view from the south. The comet's interaction with the changing equatorial solar wind and magnetic field during this crossing is expected to produce distortions and disconnections of Hale-Bopp's ion tail . Whisker-like structures, probably part of the ion tail, are visible above extending from the lower left of the bright coma.
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