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    ASTRONOMERS SPOT FIRST ACTIVITY ON GIANT MEGA COMET BEYOND SATURN

    Aug 12, 2021 2 minutes
    Words by Elizabeth Howell

    potting the first signs of activity on a comet of gargantuan size came down to a time-zone advantage. Astronomers in New Zealand were the first to spot a coma spreading around the mega comet C/2014 UN271, also known as Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which may be 1,000

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