“The best may be yet to come. The comet is currently beyond the orbit of Mars, but falling toward the sun for a close encounter in April 2024. At that time it is expected to become a naked-eye object at 4th or 5th magnitude.” https://spaceweather.com/
A COMET SHAPED LIKE THE MILLENNIUM FALCON
Until a few days ago, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks looked like a perfectly ordinary comet. Then, something on its surface exploded. Now it resembles “the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy”–the Millennium Falcon https://t.co/JZlOdNJmGC pic.twitter.com/pXH8bYrYjz
— TexN9ne (@TexN9ne) July 25, 2023