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COMET HALE-BOPP 



 
Credit : Pic du Midi/CNRS/IMCCE


During its passage near the Earth in 1997, observations showed the jets of dust escaping from the comet Hale-Bopp.

On 19 April 2002, we observed the jets of dust ejected by the comet Ikeya-Zhang.