Daily Archives: 8/16/2007

NASA - Mira: A Star with a Comets Tail

8/16/2007 – 4:11 pm

Had you asked me what Mira was before this week, I would have (correctly) told you that it is the name of a variable star. It turns out that it is Omicron Ceti, a red giant star approximately 418 light years away in the souther constellation Cetus (the Whale). It is also a [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in General | Comments (1)