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5:37 am
Tue March 12, 2013

It's Your First And Last Chance To See This Comet

Credit Chris_Samuel/Flickr--Creative Commons
An image of the Pan-STARRS comet taken from Australia. The comet will be visible from the US for the next few weeks.

A comet named Pan-STARRSĀ is visiting our part of the solar system and will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere for a couple of weeks.

The comet was discovered in June 2011 by a team of observers in Hawaii while doing a routine sweep of the sky and they named the comet after the telescope they were using.

Greg Novacek, director of the Lake Afton Observatory, says hopeful observers should look west.

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