62-mile wide comet comes from the Oort Cloud! See its orbit
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The Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile was used to discover Comet C/2014 UN271, or Bernardinelli-Bernstein. It will reach its closest point to the sun in its orbit on Jan. 23, 2031, just beyond Saturns orbit. Full Story: https://www.space.com/huge-new-comet-orbit-toward-earth
Credit: Space.com | orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)
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