Comet C/2022 E3 is already visible in the Northern Hemisphere in predawn skies with the use of a telescope or binoculars.
A comet discovered in 2022 that has not been in the neighborhood for 50,000 years could get baked enough by the sun this week as it approaches its closest path by the Earth to be seen by the naked eye this month.
As comets get closer to the sun, their dust tails can grow larger and brighter in the sky. The comet, which has a bright green core with a short, broad dust tail and long ion tail, was captured by astronomy photographer Dan Bartlett in December. It will come within about 100 million miles of the sun, according to in-the-sky.org.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "Comets are notoriously unpredictable, but if this one continues its current trend in brightness, it'll be easy to spot with binoculars, and it's just possible it could become visible to the unaided eye under dark skies," according to Preston Dyches with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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