Comet Passes By A Gem

Pieces of disintigrating comet 73P-Schwassmann-Wachmann seem to be scattering around the sky. They also seem to be getting involved with some pretty impressive night sky objects. Last night, Italian astronomers Aletti and Luca snapped this gorgeous shot of the comet passing by one of the gems of the night sky, M13 - The Hercules Star Cluster. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, another piece of comet will cruise right in front of M57 - The Ring Nebula. This is the cosmic equivalent of threading a needle. Checkout this star chart to locate the pair this coming Sunday night (5/7). It was created by the folks at Spaceweather.com