by New York (AP)-A newly discovered Green Comet, which was followed by telescopes, probably broke apart when he swung from the sun and cut hopes for a bare eye spectacle.
Comet Swan, who comes from the Oort cloud beyond Pluto, has been visible with his streaming tail by telescopes and binoculars in the past few weeks, but experts said that it had survived its latest trip past the sun and fades quickly.
“We will soon only be left with a dusty pile of rubble,” said astrophysicist Karl Battams from the US Naval Research Laboratory in an e -mail.
Comets are billions of years ago, gas and dust balls are frozen. Every now and then a comet goes through the inner solar system.
“These are relics when the solar system was formed for the first time,” said Jason Ybarra, director of the planetarium and observatory at West Virginia University.
The latest comet was discovered by amateur astronomers, which spied on a camera on photos of a camera on a spaceship, which was operated by NASA and the European space agency to study the sun.
The comet will not swing near the earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas last year. Other remarkable flybies were in the 1990s in 2020 and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake.
The comet, which also referred to C/2025 F2, would have been visible shortly after darkness a little north of the sun. Its green color would have been difficult to see with the naked eye.
This could have been the first trip of the object to the sun, which is particularly susceptible to break apart, said Battams. After his Flyby, what is left of the comet disappear in the outer ranges of the solar system, where scientists believe that it is over.
“It will go so far that we have no idea whether it will ever return,” said Battams.
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