As we wrote, in the recent period – even with the naked eye – the celestial body in the solar system called Devil’s Comet became visible. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is 30 kilometers in diameter and orbits the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit every 71 years.
According to Space.com, the well-known comet will reach perihelion — the point in its elliptical orbit when it is closest to the Sun — on Sunday, April 21, 2024, and
it is now bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
The comet occasionally erupts when radiation from the Sun breaks its icy envelope, i.e. ejects ice-volcanic melt into space. The Halley-type periodic comet was first discovered by Jean-Louis Pons on July 12, 1812, and then spotted by William Robert Brooks in 1883.
“If we’re lucky, there may be an occasion in the next few weeks when it will visibly cross the sky. You can think of them as a giant dirty snowball,” Megan Argo, an astrophysicist at the University of Mid-Lancashire, previously said of the comets, which are mainly composed of dust, rock and ice.
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