Many such quartets blaze like a comet across the sky and then disappear before you can turn your head.
Its atmosphere is escaping like a comet but on a planetary scale.
Hanwell Snr came to Hanwell like a comet, at long intervals.
There, he collapses backward as Stravinsky's final, bleating note cues the escape from within the proscenium space of a silky wisp of pure-white fabric, sending it like a comet into the auditorium ceiling.
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He rattles on about positivity and "a shot at silver linings, " yet he can't seem to appreciate the shot he's got in the person of Tiffany, who keeps flashing across his jogging orbit like a rogue comet.
The first is that the asteroid is really a ball of ice, like the nucleus of a comet, and that the minerals which the spectroscope detected are only a coating.
In this scenario, the gamma ray burst was caused by a large, comet-like object that fell into a neutron star.
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Appropriately for someone who is best known for having discovered a comet, Halley used tiny comet-like marks to indicate wind direction, an idea that did not catch on.
His figures were roughly a centimetre tall, most made with two deliberate strokes of the brush, and allowed to fade away as his paint ran out, like the trailing tail of a comet.
What's the view like from inside a nebula, or a comet's tail?
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The Spitzer observations suggest young planets circling the star are disturbing smaller comet-like bodies, causing them to collide and kick up a huge halo of dust.
In 2004, the probe called Stardust swung by a comet called Wild 2, stuck out sort of a big catcher's mitt--I think it looks more like a tennis racket--and hopefully it picked up some of the particles thrown off by the comet.
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