New York – A newly discovered Green kite tracked by telescopes has probably separated while turning next to the sun, betting hopes of a bare eyes show.
Comet Swan, from Oort’s cloud Beyond PlutoIt has been visible through telescopes and binocular in recent weeks with its transmission tail, but experts said they may not have survived their recent Travel beyond the sun And it is fading quickly.
“We will soon stay with just a stack of dusty rubble,” said Astrophysician Karl Battams of the US Naval Research Laboratory. UU. In an email.
The comets are frozen gas and dust balls of billions of years ago. From time to time, a comet passes through the internal solar system.
“These are relics of when the Solar System was formed for the first time,” said Jason Ybarra, director of the Planetarium and Observatory of the University of West Virginia.
The new kite was discovered by amateur astronomers, who spoiled him in photos taken by a camera in a spacecraft operated by NASA and the European space agency to study the sun.
The kite will not balancing near the earth as Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year. Other notable flyby included Neowise in 2020 and Hale-Bopp and Hyaktake in the 1990s.
The comet, also designated c/2025 F2, would have been visible just after dusk slightly north where the sun puts on. Its green color would have been difficult to see with the naked eye.
This could have been the first trip of the object beyond the sun, making it particularly vulnerable to break, Battams said. After its overflight, what remains of the kite will disappear in the outer sections of the solar system, beyond where scientists think it came.
“It’s going so far that we have no idea if it will ever come back,” Battams said.
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