"Unveiling the Astonishing Secrets of Comets and Meteors"

Recent discoveries in the field of astronomy have shed light on comets and meteors. Comets, small chunks of ice and dust, have long, looping orbits around the Sun and can heat up when they swing close to it, forming a bright head and a tail. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, nicknamed "The Devil Comet," recently showed two plumes of gas. Asteroids, small rocky objects that orbit the Sun, are mostly found in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully brought pieces of an asteroid to Earth, while the Lucy mission discovered a tiny moon circling the asteroid Dinkinesh. Comets and asteroids also produce meteor showers, with the upcoming Leonid Meteor shower originating from the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.