In today's image, we see an image of comet Pons-Brooks which made its closest approach to Earth a couple of days ago and is heading back into the outer solar system We can see the two distinct tails - the ion tail pointing downward to the left and the dust tail toward the upper left, less distinct and more spread out.

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