signalmankenneth
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I hope to get to see this comet, I have seen two in my lifetime, the Comet Hyakutake 1996 and Comet Hale Bopp 1999?!! It's a beautiful sight to see, I had field glasses then, now I have a telescope?!!
In 1986, I was in the Arizona Desert waiting to see the main comet, Halley's Comet, did see a thing it could only be seen in the southern hemisphere?!! A once in a life time thing for most people, I will be long dead when it returns 2061?!!
A rare green comet is passing Earth, and this could be humanity's last chance to see it. Stunning photos are already revealing what you might see if you look to the pre-dawn skies and spot the ball of frozen gas and dust shooting past.
Formally, the comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF), named for the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first discovered it in March. But skywatchers call it Comet ZTF for short.
This icy cosmic passerby is painting a green streak across the sky until the first few days of February. You probably need binoculars to spot it, or even a telescope, under dark skies far from city lights.
If you catch Comet ZTF with a telescope, you could see something like this:
Many comets glow green like this. Laboratory research has linked this aura to a reactive molecule called dicarbon, which emits green light as sunlight decays it.
Though green comets occasionally pass Earth, this one won't return for about 50,000 years, if ever. That's how long it takes Comet ZTF to orbit the sun, which means that Neanderthals still walked the Earth when it last whizzed by, during the last Ice Age.
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In 1986, I was in the Arizona Desert waiting to see the main comet, Halley's Comet, did see a thing it could only be seen in the southern hemisphere?!! A once in a life time thing for most people, I will be long dead when it returns 2061?!!
A rare green comet is passing Earth, and this could be humanity's last chance to see it. Stunning photos are already revealing what you might see if you look to the pre-dawn skies and spot the ball of frozen gas and dust shooting past.
Formally, the comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF), named for the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first discovered it in March. But skywatchers call it Comet ZTF for short.
This icy cosmic passerby is painting a green streak across the sky until the first few days of February. You probably need binoculars to spot it, or even a telescope, under dark skies far from city lights.
If you catch Comet ZTF with a telescope, you could see something like this:
Many comets glow green like this. Laboratory research has linked this aura to a reactive molecule called dicarbon, which emits green light as sunlight decays it.
Though green comets occasionally pass Earth, this one won't return for about 50,000 years, if ever. That's how long it takes Comet ZTF to orbit the sun, which means that Neanderthals still walked the Earth when it last whizzed by, during the last Ice Age.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gre...23-1?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com
