Wild Green Comet Coming Our Way Saturday Morning

For early risers on Saturday morning, a strange green comet will be visible. Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (named for the three astronomers who discovered it back in 1948) will reach maximum brightness pre-dawn, but you’ll need binoculars or a small telescope to see it properly. It will be just 7.4 million miles from Earth, and will appear as a fuzzy bluish-green ball with a fan-shaped tail—proper cartoon …

Le Petit Prince Sweater

“The Little Prince” celebrated its 70th anniversary a few years ago, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s timeless novella remains treasured to this day. Ethical fashion line Slow Factory—which prints open-source images taken by NASA satellites and telescopes onto silk scarves—merges fantasy and science in a new sweater. The Prince’s dear Asteroid B-612 has been replaced with a high-res image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken in 2014 (a …