NASA Confirms: Gigantic Inbound Comet is Biggest Ever Recorded
The giant comet that NASA found last year is even bigger than we thought it is. It could change our understanding of the Oort Cloud.
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The giant comet that NASA found last year is even bigger than we thought it is. It could change our understanding of the Oort Cloud.
The comet is bigger than Rhode Island and could be "as big as 85 miles across," according to NASA.
The comet, known as C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has an estimated diameter of about 80 miles. That's bigger than Rhode Island and about 50 times larger than the heart of most comets.
At approximately 80 miles across the core of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. We also have an aurora alert for Weds. night April 13.
Scientists from UCLA recently measured the largest comet astronomers have ever seen using NASA's Hubble Space telescope. Comet C/2014 UN271 is between 80 and 85...