Label
The Tail of 2025 Milky Way
Artist
Huangfei Xiao
Description
On a mid-November night in Alligator Point, Florida, the Milky Way slowly slipped below the western horizon. An extraterrestrial visitor, comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), is visible on the left beneath the Milky Way — a tiny dot with its faint tail was a bonus of this picture.
Type
Camera
Artist Affiliation
Graduate student
Department
Department of Physics
Area of Research
Astrophysics
Date
2025