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Giant comet is now visible, here’s how to see it

"Brian Ottum, a Michigan astronomer and owner of a telescope in New Mexico, has been photographing the comet. He says this is a comet we will all want to check out."

“The snow-covered-rock nucleus is huge, twice as big as Mt. Everest,” according to Ottum. As it flies closer to the sun, it warms up and the ice evaporates, forming an even bigger fog shroud.

"Ottum says the fog you see in this picture is 10 times the size of Earth. The tail is millions of miles long."

"The comet can now be seen with binoculars in the southern sky after dark. The best viewing is done out in the countryside, away from city lights."

"NASA adds that C/2017 K2, “is on its maiden voyage to the inner Solar System from the dim and distant Oort cloud.” When the comet was discovered, it was the most distant active inbound comet ever found. It was discovered when it was around 1.5 billion miles from the sun, and between Uranus and Saturn. The Hubble Space Telescope indicates the large snowball is about 12 miles across. The tail you will see in binoculars is about 180 million miles away."