Comets are typically are 6 miles across, but scientists have recently discovered a mega comet that is 10 times that diameter.
Comets are icy balls that orbit the sun and release gas as they approach the sun, giving them a distinctive tail. They are typically are 6 miles across, but scientists have recently discovered a mega comet that is 10 times that diameter. The chonky boy has been named Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein after its discoverers, Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania. They spotted it while looking through six years’ worth of day from the Dark Energy Survey, an international collaboration to map the expansion of the universe.
