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NASA scientists have seen the largest comet they have ever seen. The Bernardinelli-Bernstein weighs about 500 trillion tons and is 137 kilometers wide. It is heading for Earth at a speed of about 35,400 kilometers per hour, but scientists will not hit our planet.
The largest comet the scientists have ever seen is heading for Earth. According to NASA, it is about 137 kilometers wide and weighs about 500 trillion tons. For example, it is about 12 times larger than the famous Halley’s Comet, scientists said in a study published in a scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
According to NASA, the comet is about the size of Rhode Island. In the Czech Republic, it could be compared to the size of the Liberec region, which is similar in size to this American state.
Although a comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is heading towards us at a speed of about 35,400 kilometers per hour, according to scientists, it will not hit the Earth. The closest will be in 2031. It will fly about a billion kilometers around our Sun.
Scientists have known about the comet since 2021. How large it is, but the Hubble Telescope has only been able to find out now.
“We have always suspected that it must be giant because it is so clear even from such a distance. Now we can confirm it,” he said in press release NASA astronomer David Jewitt.
The comet was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein. It is therefore named after them.
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