It’s described as comet with a “brighter greenish coma, short broad dust tail and long faint ion tail stretching across a 2.5 degree wide field-of-view,” NASA’s website said.
NASA said the comet will approach close to the sun today and then will pass close to Earth via 26.4 million miles (42.5 million kilometers) Feb. 2.
“Comets are notoriously unpredictable, but if this one continues its current trend in brightness, it’ll be easy to spot with binoculars, and it’s just possible it could become visible to the unaided eye under dark skies,” Preston Dyches from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
People living in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to use a telescope or a binocular to spot the comet throughout January. Those in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to spot the comet in early February.
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