They estimate that this new sodium tail, which is not visible to the ... 1996 by an amateur astronomer from southern Japan, Comet Hyakutake (pronounced "hyah-koo-tah-kay,") came 13 times closer ...

Here they have been reprocessed for a larger display. The photo of Comet Hyakutake (left) was taken in March 1996, on the night of its closest approach to earth. That night it was a brilliant fuzzball ...

“It’ll be this fuzzy circle with a long tail stretching away from ... and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.

Hyakutake in 1996 had one of the longest ... the dust streams out behind the comet in what appears as a fiery tail. Now the comet is among the fastest things in the solar system.