As we wrote, recently – even with the naked eye – a celestial body called Satan’s Comet has become visible in the solar system. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks has a diameter of 30 kilometers and orbits the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit every 71 years.
the Space.com website The known comet will reach its perigee on Sunday, April 21, 2024 – that is, the point of its elliptical orbit when it is closest to the sun – and
It is now bright enough to see with the naked eye.
A comet sometimes erupts when radiation from the Sun breaks its ice shell, ejecting volcanic ice melt into space. A periodic Halley-type comet was first discovered by Jean-Louis Pons on July 12, 1812, and then discovered by William Robert Brooks in 1883.
“If we're lucky, there may be an occasion in the next few weeks where it will clearly cross the sky. You can think of it as a giant dirty snowball,” Megan Argo, an astrophysicist at the University of Mid Lancashire, previously said of comets, which mainly consist of Of dust, rocks and ice.
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