Australia is finally getting a last-chance view of a green comet not seen for 50,000 years
- Written by: Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
Alessandro Bianconi/Edu INAF/Flickr , CC BY-SAOver the past few weeks, social media has been abuzz with excited posts about the green comet that is currently “whizzing” or “flying through the sky”.
Now, comets don’t so much whizz as crawl. Despite that, there is a grain of truth in the reports – along with a...