Comets

Abstract

One type of visitor in our skies has probably seen the most variety of documentation over the centuries: comets. Such spectacles seem to have aroused the basic instinct in humankind, firstly to be very cautious of them, then to understand and appreciate such wonders. One can barely argue with the feelings when such an apparition occurred in the night sky, out of the ordinary, puzzling, and by its own brilliance, something to behold and be fearful of.