- This Framed 16x12 Print features an image chosen by Science Photo Library. Estimated image size 331x305mm.
- Black Grain Bevel with White Mount 41x30cm print in 51x41cm frame with mount individually cut to size. Wood Grain effect Artcore molding. Mount board card with high quality facing papers, core board and backing paper. Hardboard back stapled in with hanger
- Image Description: Comet C/2001 Q4 on 7 May 2004, the day after it passed closest to the Earth. Q4 reached perihelion (closest point to the Sun) just over a week later, on the 15 May. A comet is a ball of water ice and dust, which has a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun. As comets approach the Sun, they develop a tail of vaporised gas and dust that always points away from the Sun due to the solar wind. This comet was discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid
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