In the sky shining green comet — don't miss out

Comet 45p / Honda — Mrkos — Pajdusakova, which five years later returns to the inner Solar system, will be visible throughout the week. In order to observe a celestial body, enough to have binoculars or a small telescope.

Unusual green glow of the comet will reach its maximum brightness this weekend.

Comet 45p / Honda — Mrkos — Pajdusakova named after the three astronomers who discovered it in 1948. It moves into the inner solar system every five and a quarter years. Saturday 45r will be at a distance of 12 million kilometers from the Earth: the scale of the cosmos — two steps from our planet.

Using binoculars or a small telescope, Amateur astronomers will be able to detect 45rin the sky in the constellation of Hercules. Visually it will have fuzzy outlines blue-green ball with a fan-shaped tail. This unusual glow of the comet was due to the fumes diapered gas, which in the vacuum of space becomes green.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»