70 ASTRONOMY • MARCH 2020
READER GALLERY
Cosmic portraits
- TWO THUMBS UP
On August 9, 2019, two comets —
260P McNaught and ASASSN
(C/2018 N2) — appeared to cross
tails in the constellation Aries the
Ram. At the time, each of these
celestial visitors to our inner solar
system glowed at magnitude 12.
- Gerald Rhemann
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