
A giant megacomet bumps as it zooms through the solar system
There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system now, and it’s greater than anything seen before. It does not threaten soil, but this comet, called C / 2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), obtained astronomers since then the discovery of 2021. Something’s ok, sometimes called a “megacomet,” 100 times greater than most comets we see…