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Stories about: comet holmes

Hubble Hopes to Break the Mystery Currently, the largest celestial body in the solar system is not the Sun as you would think, but a comet. The outburst of comet Holmes, on 23rd of October, is still troubling scientists in the search to explain what event could have triggered it. The comet is slowly turning into a star of the night sky, due to the la... 16 November 2007 03:57 GMT Comet Holmes: Larger than the Sun The Sun used to be considered the biggest object in the solar system. Though not as massive and compact as the star, comet Holmes currently has a volume larger than that of the Sun. The second outburst in history took place on the 24th of October this year, when the comet expanded and multiplied its brightness about ... 15 November 2007 05:31 GMT