Comet multi-time bigger than 'Mount Everest' is coming towards Earth. Check size, key details
Mount Everest, has experienced an explosion. Subsequently, the comet was on a trajectory toward Earth, according to reports.
This explosion was observed on October 5, originating from 12P/Pons-Brooks, a cryovolcanic comet with a massive 18.6-mile diameter, approximately the size of a small city, as reported by Live Science.
To put this in perspective, Mount Everest, Earth's tallest mountain, stands at 29,029 feet in height, which is approximately 5.5 miles.
Remarkably, this is the second time this interstellar ice comet has erupted in just four months, with the previous celestial event occurring in July, according to the Science Times.
British Astronomical Association has been closely monitoring 12P. British Astronomical Association became aware of this explosion when they observed it shining dozens of times brighter due to the reflected light from its coma, the cloud of gas surrounding its core.
Last week, NASA gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from an asteroid's surface, including water-bearing clay minerals.
A small quantity of the material collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was unveiled in an auditorium at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, a little more than two weeks after it was parachuted into the Utah desert.
The return capsule's landing capped a seven-year joint mission of the US space agency and the University of Arizona.
