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4 billion-year-old Comet with heart ‘blacker than coal’ heading towards Earth, know more - The interstellar BB comet is so huge that it was earlier mistaken to be a dwarf planet.

Images of C/2014 UN271 – a comet 128km in diameter and completing an orbit of the sun every few million years – were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in archival images from the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. With a diameter of approximately 80 miles across, the comet is about 50 times larger than typical comets and its 500 trillion ton mass is a hundred thousand times greater than a typical comet found much closer to the Sun.

NASA has confirmed that the largest comet ever observed by a human is larger than expected and is making its way toward Earth.

On January 8, a team utilized the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein five times

The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, identified in 2021, is officially the biggest comet ever observed.

The largest comet that has ever been found with a telescope has just surprised researchers and will no doubt continue to do so.

Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB) is the largest comet ever observed, and its been active for a lot longer than previously thought.

A comet so huge it was initially mistaken for a dwarf planet is on an inward-bound trajectory from the outer Solar System.