Comet Hale-Bopp

mindpixel writes "When Comet Hale-Bopp passed through the inner solar system in early 1997, it was admired in the sky by a substantial fraction of the world's population. Now ESO (European Southern Observatory) has imaged the comet at 2 billion kilometers." Hale-Bopp has a 4000-year period, so savor it while you can. :)