There are many stars, comets, planets and exoplanets that we can and cannot see in the sky. Research by astronomers reveals results that will amaze us more and more every day. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope With the help of it, a very interesting comet was discovered.

So far, what sets this comet apart from the rest? largest comet discovered It happened, and in fact this discovery was not the first time. Let’s take a look at the details of this comet, which will amaze researchers, and how it was discovered.

It will be at the shortest distance from Earth in 2031

The comet, named Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 UN271), was first photographed in 2014 and was more than 5 billion miles from the sun when it was first photographed. This made it very difficult to investigate. Although astronomers estimate the size of this comet to be quite large, this has not yet been proven. With images from the Hubble telescope on January 8 allowed to calculate the core size of the comet.

Man-To Hu of Macau University of Science and Technology in Taipa and his team modeled it on a computer using images obtained with the telescope. Modeling, taking into account the distance and visibility through the telescope, showed that the comet had a nucleus of unprecedented size. As a result of the studies, the comet is approximately It has a core of 128 km in size and weighs about 500 trillion tons. popped up. However, this giant comet Travels 22,000 miles and approaches Earth observed. According to the researchers’ calculations, it will be at its closest distance to Earth in 2031. That means it will be about 1 billion miles from the sun. It is currently about 2 billion miles from the sun.

About the same size as the largest comet ever discovered by the sheer size of its inner nucleus, Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is even more massive when taking into account the coma and light filtering around its nucleus. Researchers believe this new discovery regarding comets from the Oort cloud I hope you can give details.