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...North Africa during World War II before going to work as a technical illustrator. Hortens drew the maps that appeared in TIME during the first two weeks of Middle East fighting and applied his skills this week to the Science section chart that shows the path of the Kohoutek comet...
Hidden from earthly view by the glare of the sun for the past few months, the recently discovered comet, Kohoutek, has now been "recaptured" by telescope. Astronomers are delighted with what they see: Kohoutek, which may be come the most spectacular comet of this century (TIME, June 4), has already begun to develop a fiery tail. The comet will become visible to the naked eye by early December, when it will appear in the morning sky. By early January, its tail-formed when the gases boiling off the comet are swept away from the sun by charged solar particles...
...Kohoutek probably originated far beyond the outermost planet, where billions of comets are believed to orbit the sun. They were apparently born out of the same cloud of interstellar dust and gas that created the sun and the planets some 4.6 billion years ago, and have remained largely unchanged since. Occasionally, the tug of a nearby star pulls a comet into a far more elongated orbit, bringing it closer to the sun and making it visible from earth. Thus, as Kohoutek approaches, astronomers will have a rare opportunity to learn more about the primordial stuff out of which the solar...
...even more important to the Skylab 3 crew. At week's end, NASA was considering extending Skylab 3's mission-scheduled for launch Nov. 11-from the 56 days originally planned to 70. That would give the astronauts more time to observe the newly discovered Comet Kohoutek-perhaps the brightest of the century-as it makes its fiery pass around the sun in December and January...
Even more data about the sun will be gathered by the Skylab 3 astronauts, who will also study Comet Kohoutek as it becomes prominent in the sky during daylight hours in December. But that will be the last manned scientific space mission planned by the U.S. Says Robert Noyes of the Harvard College Observatory: "We'll probably never again have such an opportunity in the foreseeable future...