Now is a great opportunity for you to see a comet in the night sky. You should be able to see Comet Lulin tonight. This is simply another comet that is flying through our solar system.  There are literally thousands of them out there.  For a creationist perspective on the origin of comets, please see this website - Center for Scientific Creation.

As far as this comet is concerned—apparently it is flying through the solar system clockwise, as opposed to counterclockwise, through the solar system.  So, by comparison, you could say this comet (named Comet Lulin after the Chinese observatory where it was discovered) is going backwards through the solar system.

The NASA article on the comet is posted here.

Sky & Telescope Magazine has a great article about this comet here. They also have a simple sky map that shows the position of the comet over the next few nights.

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