For astronomers, spotting things at huge distances is all part of the gig, but sometimes our Solar System takes care of the hard work by bringing interesting objects withing a cosmic hair’s width of Earth. Comets are one of those kinds of objects, and in a new blog post NASA shows off some lovely (if a bit blurry) images of the brightest comet of 2018.
This particular ball of ice and rock is called 46P/Wirtanen, and the images you see here were captured on December 13th as the comet came within approximately 7.4 million miles of our planet.
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This bright, hazy blue blob is the brightest comet to visit Earth in 2018 originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 13:27:26 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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