Green comet captured from back garden

A stargazer has captured the infinitesimal a recently discovered greenish comet began to marque its closest attack to Earth.

George Chan photographed comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from his backmost plot successful Bramcote, Nottinghamshire.

The entity originates successful the Oort cloud, a postulation of icy bodies astatine the borderline of the star system, and its travel to our satellite took astir 50,000 years.

Comets are mostly composed of crystal and dust. As they attack the Sun, the crystal is vaporised and the particulate shaken disconnected to make the signature agelong tail.

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