April 13, 2022

Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)

An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters” reports a study on comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) conducted thanks to observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope. A team of researchers also used previous observations to estimate that this comet’s nucleus is about 119 kilometers in diameter. This result confirms that it’s the largest known comet. The studies will continue even if it will remain very far from Earth also because it almost certainly comes from the Oort cloud.