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No, they are not. They come from regions of asteroids that exist within our own solar system. Long period comets, the ones that appear once in thousands of years, probably come from the Oort Cloud, a spherical cloud of small icy asteroids believed to exist at the farthest outer reaches of the solar system. Short period comets like Halley's probably come from the Kuiper Belt, a ring of asteroids just beyone Neptune's orbit. The minor planet Pluto is the most famous Kuiper object. Not all objects in the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt are comets; in fact most are not.
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What do scientists call the study of comets and other things related to space?
Scientists refer to the study of comets and other celestial bodies as astronomy or astrophysics, depending on the specific focus of the research. Cometary science involves studying the composition, behavior, and origins of comets, while broader astronomical research includes investigating the entire universe, including stars, planets, and galaxies.
What movement in relation to other space objects is the sun?
The Sun is primarily characterized by its motion within the Milky Way galaxy, orbiting its center at an average speed of about 230 kilometers per second. Additionally, it is part of the Local Group of galaxies and moves in relation to other galaxies in the universe. The Sun also exerts gravitational influence on the planets, asteroids, and comets within the solar system, keeping them in orbit around it.
Do comets revolve around other planets?
The revole around the sun
Is there anything other than planets in space?
yes there is stars the sun and at sometimes rocket ships
What is the type of star used by Hubble to measure the distance to other galaxies?
what is the type of star used by the Hubble to measure the distance to other galaxies.
Galaxies are groups of?
Stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids and other phenomena.
What else was formed when the earth was formed?
The other planets, stars, galaxies, meteors, comets, and asteroids.
How do you find galaxies?
Look up in the sky with a good telescope, and find things that are too fuzzy-looking to be stars. Some of them are nebulas, and a few may be comets - but a lot of them are other galaxies.
Are comets asteroids stars or galaxies sometimes called minor planets?
Asteroids, some comets, and dwarf planets are classified as minor planets. Stars and galaxies are much larger than planets There are dwarf planets and these are Ceres Pluto and Eris.
What are the other heavenly bodies aside from comets?
Asteriods and meteors. everything you see in the night sky is classed as a heavenly body, planets, stars, moons and galaxies
What do scientists call the study of comets and other things related to space?
Scientists refer to the study of comets and other celestial bodies as astronomy or astrophysics, depending on the specific focus of the research. Cometary science involves studying the composition, behavior, and origins of comets, while broader astronomical research includes investigating the entire universe, including stars, planets, and galaxies.
Who found about the galaxies?
Galaxies are visible to the naked eye, so early observers no doubt saw them. But without telescopes, even the sharpest vision only showed them a small smudges in the sky. In the late 1700s, the French astronomer Charles Messier couldn't have cared less about other galaxies, and in fact, didn't know what they were. Messier was a comet hunter, and finding comets was his great joy in life. To speed his discovery of potential comets, Messier created a catalog of smudgy comet-like things in the sky that were NOT comets, so that he could quickly reject them the next time he saw them. These Messier Catalog objects were, predominantly, other galaxies, and many of the galaxies that we still study are named or referenced by their numbers in Messier's catalog. For example, the Great Nebula in Andromeda, sometimes called the "Andromeda galaxy", is item number 31 on Messier's list; M31 in Andromeda.
Who made a list of Comets in the 1700's?
Charles Messier, a French astronomer, compiled a list of 110 astronomical objects, including comets, known as the Messier catalogue in the 18th century. His catalog was created to help differentiate between comets and other celestial objects, such as galaxies and nebulae.
What is astonomy?
Astronomy is the study of the universe (celestial objects such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star cluster, and galaxies).
What other galaxcies are there?
There are countless other galaxies in the universe. Early astronomers could tell that they weren't comets or nebula, although they looked sort of like those. Charles Messier, a French astronomer, was very interested in finding comets, and catalogued a numbered list of objects that looked like comets, but were not. Later research revealed that many of his "messier objects" are in fact other galaxies. So the Andromeda Galaxy was #31 on Messier's list; "M31". Shortly after the Hubble space telescope went operational, NASA pointed the Hubble at a tiny area of "completely blank" sky, an area that contained hardly any stars. The resultant "Deep Field Survey" revealed that there may be as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way.
Where can you find a celestial body?
Look up into the sky. Stars, planets, comets, asteroids, galaxies, etc., are celestial bodies.
What is the largest galaxy in the solar system?
There are no galaxies in the solar system. The solar system consists of the sun and the planets and various other objects such as moons, comets, asteroids and other things. Our solar system is in a galaxy called the Milky Way.
