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Baroque Bloke
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“Stargazers have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a comet larger than Mount Everest whizzing through the sky this month.

Officially known as Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, the comet has been compared with the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars because of its pair of 'horns' seen in images.

Amateur astronomers have already been snapping photos of the comet with specialist telescopes, but it should soon become visible to the naked eye.

To see Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, look westwards in the night sky and find the Great Square of Pegasus – the four stars of nearly equal brightness.

Over the next few weeks, the comet is moving from Great Square of Pegasus towards Aries the Ram, which forms a loose V-shape. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13186315



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Hope to see it during totality of the April 8th Eclipse.
That would be way cool!




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