Comets with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Dr. Natalie Starkey

The Perseids are active through the next several days, though the activity level will continue to drop. Wildfires in western Colorado continue to degrade visibility making it more difficult - but not impossible - to catch a few Perseids. Don’t forget to look for Jupiter and Saturn, the dynamic duo currently dominating the southern sky in the evening!

The Perseid meteors are streaks of debris coming from comet Swift-Tuttle when it last crossed Earth’s orbit. We had another comet visible last month, comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3). Comets have remain some of the most interesting and unpredictable targets for astronomers to study, and recently Dr. Natalie Starkey sat down with Neil DeGrasse Tyson on StarTalk to discuss comets in general and what we learned from the recent flyby of NEOWISE.

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Cosmic Queries - Comet NEOWISE - StarTalk Radio

If you were lucky enough this past July, you might have caught a glimpse of Comet NEOWISE before it left Earth's view. If not, don't worry, we've got you covered. On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Negin Farsad are answering fan-submitted Cosmic Queries about Comet NEOWISE and more with cosmochemist and author Natalie Starkey, PhD.

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