A Bright Comet With A Tail Could Adorn Twilight...

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…Just As The Coronavirus Epidemic Peaks, according to Jamie Carter with Forbes.

“Comet Atlas” is getting a tail.

Could it be that we’re about to get a bright comet, visible to the naked eye to everyone in the northern hemisphere, just as the coronavirus pandemic reaches its peak?

Currently visible through binoculars and telescopes as it travels through the northern circumpolar constellations of Ursa Major (the Big Dipper/Plough) and Camelopardalis (the Giraffe), Comet Atlas—officially known as C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)—appears to be getting a tail. Read More

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