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Space.com on MSNSee interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom through solar system in new telescope imagery (video)Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.
Researchers got an up-close look at the largest comet ever observed, C/2014 UN271, hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud and measuring 85 miles across with jets of carbon monoxide gas.
The comet appears to burn a bright, lime green color in photographs. But Fraknoi says don't look for something green in the sky. "The naked eye just shows a fuzzy white glow," he said.
Astronomers recently got a close-up look at the comet, known as C/2014 UN271, flying through deep space with the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile.
Right now, with a telescope, Comet SWAN is visible before sunrise if you’re looking along our east-northeast horizon. It might be hard to see even with binoculars.
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