A recently discovered green comet, whose last journey past Earth was tens of thousands of years ago, will make its next trip past our blue planet in the coming weeks.
, discovered last year by astronomers in Southern California, will reach its closest point to Earth on Feb. 1 at 1:11 p.m. EST.
The rare comet, notable for its greenish tint, will still be about 42 million kilometres away from Earth and stargazers will likely need binoculars or a small telescope to see it, York University researchers say.They say the last time this comet flew by Earth was about 50,000 years ago – and it may never return.
"It will be going past the constellation Corona Borealis just before sunrise here in Toronto with Feb. 1 being the best day to view it," Elaina Hyde, an assistant professor at York University and director of the Allan I. Carswell Observatory in the faculty of science,
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