“Broom Star” Halloween Legend a Gaseous Comet / Witches on Brooms the Devil? #randallcarlson #space

An old Halloween superstition says: put clothes on inside-out, walk backward at midnight, and a “witch” will fly across the moon. That “witch” may have been a broom-shaped comet and the slow, bright fireballs of the Taurid meteor stream — cosmic debris that can look like a sweeping broom in moonlight. Watch the sky myths connect to real celestial mechanics.


short video extracted from the Cosmography101 class series

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Cosmo101 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRcDAFHjDSg-bjFZevjMQYOZunJJ-K4k
RC Intro lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRcDAFHjDSjjdVxkM5pC9tNvrwO7g8Gy

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