Nasa scientists spy 'largest ever comet'
It's 85 miles wide, which is larger than the US state of Rhode Island. And it's coming this way.
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It's 85 miles wide, which is larger than the US state of Rhode Island. And it's coming this way.
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.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the behemoth comet named C/2014 UN27 which weighs more than 500 trillion tons and has a diameter larger than Rhode Island.
An enormous comet more than twice the width of Rhode Island is expected to make its closest approach to Earth in 2031. However, it will never get closer than 1.6 billion kilometres (one billion miles) from the sun, according to astronomers.
The comet is bigger than Rhode Island and about 50 times larger than the heart of most comets.