Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet

The comet was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in archival images from the Dark Energy Survey at an astronomical observatory in Chile.

  • It was discovered in November 2010 and has been intensively studied since.
  • The comet has been travelling towards the sun for over a million years and it is believed to have originated in the Oort Cloud. Oort Cloud is a distant region of the solar system that is predicted to be the source of most comets.
  • The Bernardinelli-Berstein comet follows a 3-million-year-long elliptical orbit and has an estimated temperature of minus 348 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • It ....
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