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Soon the brightest comet of the year can be seen in the sky, but scientists are worried about its behavior

The brightest comet of 2021 and a space object that humanity will not see for the next 80 years, behaving strangely. Writes about it Tweak Town.

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You can see comet Leonard literally once in a lifetime. It will come closest to Earth on December 12, 2021. The comet will be 22 million miles from Earth, about 90 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. Approaching the Earth for a comet usually means approaching the Sun. This means that it will appear brighter to observers, as the sun's rays cause an intense melting of the ice ball, which then creates more vapor. However, Leonard for some reason does not do this.

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Researchers noticed in late November that Leonard was not getting brighter, but dimming, according to a Space.com report. According to the publication, based on what astronomers know after studying past comets, there are several answers to the question of why it is dimming. There is a possibility that some part of the comet broke off and it disintegrates as it approaches the Sun. True, the researchers are not entirely sure why Leonard is tarnishing, but they put forward several hypotheses.

“This is not very good news. The comet should be brighter and brighter. If it doesn't get brighter, something is wrong. Unfortunately, we don’t know exactly what’s going on at this stage,” said Kuangzhi Ye, an astronomer at the University of Maryland who specializes in comets.

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“There are different hypotheses why it disappears. The simplest and most obvious is that something abnormal is happening to the comet. In the images I saw on December 7th, she was still fine. Morphologically it looks normal. But the internal trend towards extinction still continues. Time will tell, but we don’t know yet,” Ye concluded.

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