It is better to observe the comet through a telescope now, because starting July 13, due to the supermoon, it will no longer be visible.
Comet 2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) under the Record holder name on July 14 will approach Earth as close as possible. This was reported by the website The Watchers.
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Comet 2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), called Record Breaker, will approach Earth on July 14, 2022, and then reach perigee (the closest point to the Sun) on December 19, near the orbit of Mars. The comet has been called a record holder because it was already active when it was discovered in 2017 under the dim light of the distant Sun.
This comet began to form a mixture of 130,000 kilometers wide around its nucleus in May-June 2017, when it was at a distance of 16 astronomical units or approximately 2.5 billion km from the Sun-between orbits of Saturn and Uranus. Scientists have identified him as the record holder, the most distant and simultaneously active comet, ever seen at such a distance.
It has been found that it is better to observe the comet through a telescope now, because starting July 13, due to the supermoon (the coincidence of the full moon in the perigee), it will be even worse to see.
The K2 orbit indicates that the comet emerged from the Oort Cloud, a spherical region nearly a light-year in total that is thought to contain hundreds of billions of comets.
In the past, scientists determined the size of the largest comet in the history of observations. Comet C/2014 UN271, also known as Bernardinelli-Bernstein.
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Source: korrespondent
