Green Comet Coming Towards Earth Just EXPLODED in Brightness – And You Might be Able to Spot It Next Month

• Green Comet Coming Towards Earth Just EXPLODED in Brightness – And You Might be Able to Spot It Next Month
  by Shivali Best, https://www.mirror.co.uk/
  Amateur astronomer Michael Jäger captured an incredible image of Comet PANSTARRS, as it brightened by 16-fold on July 2
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  It’s expected to become visible to the naked eye next month, and now a green comet has exploded in brightness. Amateur astronomer Michael Jäger captured an incredible image of Comet PANSTARRS, as it brightened by 16-fold on July 2. Mr Jäger said: “The gas cloud around the comet’s nucleus is about 4 arc minutes wide.” That means the comet’s atmosphere is 260,000 km in diameter – almost twice as wide as the planet Jupiter.
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  This huge size makes the comet fairly easy to spot using a standard telescope. The comet is currently falling towards the sun from the Oort cloud – a giant spherical shell surrounding the Sun, that often produces comets.
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  Worryingly, the comet has never visited the inner planets before, meaning it’s unclear what will happen when it approaches the sun next month. Thankfully, the comet is approaching the sun on a hyperbolic orbit that is expected to fling it back to the outer solar system. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun on August 15-16, at which point it will be inside the orbit of Mercury.
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