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Professor Brad Gibson, an astrophysicist at the University of Hull, said such comet sightings only come round once a decade on average and that for many people Nishimura presented a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".
Comet Nishimura can already been seen after sunset and before dawn but will pass closest to Earth next week, according to astronomers.
The brightness of comet Nishimura has increased since its discovery several weeks ago, leading to hopes that it’ll soon be visible to the unaided eye.
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One look at a light pollution map Dark Sky Map can be pretty upsetting. Whole swaths of the earth, especially in North America, Europe and Asia have basically erased the night sky.