Beauty

Michael Jäger of Stixendorf, Austria, took the picture on June 6th using an 8-inch telescope. The comet's green atmosphere is larger than the planet Jupiter, while the long willowy ion tail stretches more than a million kilometers through space.

One wonders... Did the inhabitants of galaxy NGC 891 duck when Comet McNaught flew past the edge-on spiral on the morning of June 8th? Mike O'Connor and Tristan Dilapo took this picture of the cosmic close encounter from Colden, New York:

                                                            Coyote, taken by my friend Tim Breedon with a trip wire camera.

The Local bookstore in Bend, Orgeon, Between The Covers. Halloween, the wolfs call echos off the walls. 
Great store.