# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BSoWDtal7D_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736066-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/96be397036.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-04-08T16:03:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

In this image taken March 24, 2017, comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák is shown moving through a field of faint galaxies in the bowl of the Big Dipper. On April 1, the comet passed by Earth at a distance of about 13 million miles (0.14 astronomical units), or 55 times the distance from Earth to the moon; that is a much closer approach than usual for this Jupiter-family comet.

Credits: image copyright Chris Schur, used with permission

#nasa #comet #nasabeyond #astronomy #earth #science

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