Spectacular Green Comet 2023

All You Need to Know About Green Comet 2023

— Ashish Pokhriyal Comet 2023

2023 will bring rare stargazing opportunities – from a green comet to a partial solar eclipse with a "ring of fire."

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The first comet to light up the night sky since the Nowise comet in 2020 is approaching Earth.

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Comet C/2022 E3, which orbits the sun every 50,000 years, will be closest to us next week.

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Discovered last March by astronomers at the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in California.

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was calculated to orbit the sun every 50,000 years, meaning it last tore past our home planet in the stone age.

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Astronomers armed with telescopes have captured stunning pictures of the comet in the past month.

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Showing the body’s head, dust tail and the longer, more tenuous ion tail.

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Meteor showers and other celestial objects will also light up the night sky all year long.

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