Comet News | The comet hasn't been visible for 50,000 years

On Thursday night, it will be possible to see a comet passing by Earth. The comet can be observed with good binoculars, if you’re lucky with the weather, meteorologists reported on Twitter.

There is great hope for clear weather tonight in eastern Norway, but there are also prospects for short periods of clear skies in the west and north.

last chance

The comet hasn’t been visible from Earth for 50,000 years, and US astrophysicists have estimated that this will likely be the last time one will have a chance to see it, according to a Norwegian Astronomical Society press communication, Tor E. Aslesen.

– Due to turbulence in the track, it is pushed out. It is the speed of the comet that determines this. With the extra speed, it can exit from its original path into an infinite path. The reverse can also happen, with a comet being sent into Earth orbit.

The comet’s name is numbered and is determined by the time of year it was discovered. The comet was captured by an automated device, Aslesen says, and that’s because of the somewhat cryptic name.

What is the culprit?

A comet is a celestial body consisting of frozen gas, rocks and dust belonging to the solar system. As a result of their formation, comets have been nicknamed “dirty snowballs”.

Comets travel long orbits around the sun, and some of them appear in the inner solar system at regular intervals. A comet is usually detected as a small haze dotted across the sky. Comets have a distinctive luminous particle ‘tail’.