Green comet is coming to visit us in February 1st... What is this? Why is this comet Green?
A rare comet, a jewel in the night with a dashing bright green nucleus, will grace the skies near Earth for what might be the first time since the Stone Age .Made of ice and dust and emitting a greenish aura, the comet is estimated to have a diameter of around a kilometer, said Nicolas Biver, an astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory. That makes it significantly smaller than NEOWISE, the last comet visible with an unaided eye, which passed Earth in March 2020, and Hale-Bopp, which swept by in 1997. The comet, dubbed by NASA as C/2022 E3, was first spotted by astronomers at the Zwicky Transient Facility on Palomar Mountain in California in March 2022. (At that time, it was flying past Jupiter.)
0:00 - Introduction
0:36 - How was discovered?
0:59 - When and how to see?
1:14 - Interesting facts about comet
3:01 - Why green?
3:24 - Strange Name
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