The largest comet in the solar system has been discovered. NASA (hereinfollowing referred to as screw) announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comet ‘C/2014 UN271’ with a core width of 120 km.
The comet was first observed at the Cerro Toltolo Pan American Observatory in Chile in 2010, and the comet’s nucleus was observed in 2014. About 8 years later, on the 12th, the Hubble Space Telescope finally confirmed the existence of the comet. The comet was named following the discoverers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein.
According to NASA, the comet is regarding 50 times the size of an average comet, and has a mass of 500 trillion tons. The comet is currently approaching Earth at a speed of regarding 35,405 km/h. However, it is known that there is no chance that the comet will collide with Earth.