Comet Lovejoy, La Silla Observatory, Chile
Comet Lovejoy, La Silla observatory, Chile. A composite image of long exposures of the night sky revealing Comet Lovejoy (centre); the Pleiades (above and to the right); and the California Nebula's red arc of gas (directly to the right of Lovejoy). A meteor is visible as a streak of light to the left of Lovejoy. Photographed in January 2015., by ESO/PETR HORALEK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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