great comets
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How to Spot the Ephemeral Cometary Visitor Nishimura
Nishimura (2023 P1), a comet discovered just last month, is set to make its nearest approach to Earth in the next 400 years during tomorrow’s predawn sky. Comets are frozen accumulations of rock, dust, and ices that grow tails when warmed up by objects like our Sun, occasionally making them stunning to behold in the…
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Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 137 km Wide
Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ever discovered, according to updated observations of the inbound object.
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Enormous Inbound Comet Appears as ‘Beautiful Little Fuzzy Dot’ in New Image
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, as it’s now known, won’t make its closest approach to the Sun for another 10 years, but the object is already showing signs of life, as this wonderful new image shows.
