'It's likely to look like a sort of small, greyish fuzz, quite typical for many comets,' astronomer Robert Massey said.
A massive comet the size of Mount Everest is swinging by the Earth's neighborhood for the first time in nearly a century in the next few weeks, and may even be visible to the naked eye.The comet, named 12P/Pons-Brooks, is often referred to as a 'devil' comet due to horn-shaped explosions of ice and gas that were spotted on its surface last year.
It's not going to be like that,' Robert Massey, deputy executive director at the Royal Astronomical Society, U.K., said in a video. 'This is something that might just be visible to the naked eye if you don't have a Moon in the sky, if there's no light pollution and if the weather is really clear, then you might stand a chance.'But for most of us, we're going to need to pick up a pair of binoculars,' he warned.
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