Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet
- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed that the huge Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is indeed the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers.
- It is also called the C/2014 UN271.
- The comet has been travelling towards the sun for over a million years, and it is believed to have originated in the Oort Cloud.
- It has an estimated diameter of almost 129 kilometres.
- The nucleus of the comet is around 50 times larger than that of most known comets, and its mass is estimated to be around 500 trillion ....
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