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A green comet named Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which last passed by our planet about 50,000 years ago, is seen from the Pico de las Nieves, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, February 1, 2023 ...
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. [5]
A zoomed-in image of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) captured on Jan. 23, 2023. (Michael Borland) Celestial sleuths at th ... the comet will look like a fuzzy green star rather than a prominent feature with a ...
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet is visible with the naked eye from certain locations
The green comet will pass within 26 million miles of Earth on 1 February; however, it is already visible to people in the Northern Hemisphere with binoculars or telescopes under the right viewing ...
The ‘green comet’ is now visible from Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. Watch as a green comet flies by Earth. Friday 3 February 2023 07:59, Josh Marcus. Watch as a green comet flew ...
Recently discovered comet C/2022 E3 is so rare that it was last seen during the Ice Age The 2023 ‘green comet’ is now visible from Earth for the first time in 50,000 years Skip to main content
The comet was first photographed by astronomer Lin Chi-Sheng (林啟生) with a 0.41-metre (16 in) telescope at the Lulin Observatory in Nantou, Taiwan on July 11, 2007. . However, it was the 19-year-old Ye Quanzhi (葉泉志) from Sun Yat-sen University in China, who identified the new object from three of the photographs taken by Lin