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A zoomed-in image of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) captured on Jan. 23, 2023. (Michael Borland) Celestial sleuths at th Comet E3 to make closest approach to Earth tonight
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet is visible with the naked eye from certain locations Green comet 2023 – live: How best to see ‘awesome’ E3 in sky as it passes Earth at closest point Skip to main content
Digital telescopes capture stunning images of green comet Thursday 2 February 2023 14:49 , Anthony Cuthbertson We’ve received some great photos of the green comet taken by amateur astronomers.
Watch as a green comet flew past Earth for the first time in some 50,000 years before disappearing from our Solar System. The C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet is so rare that woolly mammoths and saber ...
How to catch a glimpse of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) this week
The comet has a bright green glow around its nucleus, due to the effect of sunlight on diatomic carbon and cyanogen. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] The comet's systematic designation starts with C to indicate that it is not a periodic comet , and "2022 E3" means that it was the third comet to be discovered in the first half of March 2022.
Comet Nishimura was found by an amateur astronomer, named Hideo Nishimura, in Japan on Aug. 12. According to NASA, Nishimura caught the comet using 30-second exposures with a standard digital camera .
The green comet, whose formal name is C/2022 E3 (ZTF), was discovered on March 2, 2022, by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego.