The Largest Comet Ever Seen, Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, Is Heading Towards The Sun ladbible.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ladbible.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Giant Comet Found in Outer Solar System by Dark Energy Survey
Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031
Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli Array G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Music by Zero-project :Through the Looking Glass (zero-project.gr) Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector, M. Zamani & J. Miller
Zooming on Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. This zoom shows an image from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) composed of some of the discovery exposures showing Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein collected by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.