This comet, which is making its first pass by us in more than 50,000 years, won't look so spectacular to the naked eye. Here's why it's still really, really neat.
Photographers on the Sunshine Coast took advantage of clear skies Jan. 29 to capture some images of the latest comet in our skies.
Why doesn't it look like the pictures? Even with binoculars, though, the comet won't appear to observers as it does in these photos. Contemplating insignificance Comet ZTF may have never been this close before and may never be again, Corbet said. "It comes from so far out that minute interactions out there could send it away from the solar system into interstellar space.
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