By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: Comet ☄️ C/2021 A1 is now visible with binoculars. By this weekend it could be seen by the naked eye.
Like other Comets Leonard is a Ball of frozen gas , rocks and dust. When it's orbit brings it close to the sun 🌄 the heat causes some of that material to vapourize, which makes it glow and sprout a tail of gas & dust.
While many comets pass through our solar system very few come close to the Sun ⛅ or the Earth for us to see them. Brighter Comets are rare, so it's definitely worth making an effort to see them.
Right now the Comet is visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the Eastern Sky to people using binoculars from anywhere in Canada in the early morning. It is expected to get brighter and closer to the horizon every morning until Saturday, Dec 11.
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