the Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF) Captured and described by NASAcan be consideredGlitter beanbag“From Thursday, January 12, until the end of February,” he said Researcher at the Astronomy Institute of Julieta Fierro Guzmánwho also confirmed that it is the best time in Mexico to see this object that passes every year 50 thousand years It will be on February 2, 2023.
Juliet Fierro Guzman, a well-known Mexican science publisher, asserts that “this comet is indeed like a small, thin ball advancing through the universe, in contrast to the stars that are always in the same places that make up the constellations”; However, it will be at the beginning of February when it is best seen in the night sky.
- The best day to see it is Thursday, February 2, when it’s closest to Earth; City lights will prevent you from seeing it, so Fierro Guzmán suggested looking for a place away from it.
to me earthskyNorthern Hemisphere observers using telescopes and binoculars should look toward the northeast horizon shortly before midnight to get a view from January 12thalthough at its closest point to Earth It can be seen in the early evening.
From the point of view of the researcher, Dr UNAMthese objects are “detected even if they are very far away because they move with respect to starsand this time we can see it with the naked eye in very dark places.” This particular comet was found by the project Zwicky Transit Facility.
What is it and what is known about this object?
baptized in the name of C/2022 E3 (ZTF), east Kite It has an orbit around the sun that passes through the far reaches of the solar system, and that is why it took a long time to pass the earth again, According to the Planetary Society. Besides the Container I managed to take an unprecedented picture of this object.
The last time this being passed by, humans had begun to colonize Earth; It would take 50,000 years for them to be observed again in the interstellar neighborhood, since Kites They have very elliptical orbits and although some of them come back every two or five years, others take thousands to do so, or they’re gone forever.
“The comets come from very far places, they are located in a belt behind Pluto or a cloud, and they are farther from the sun. Some of them have been studied and photographs taken, and for this reason they are known to be amorphous formed from ice and rock, and were also taken when they are closer to the sky in the processes of evaporation.
Juliet Fierro Guzman
comet C2022 E3 (ZTF) They are distinguished from stars by their tails of dust and energetic particles, as well as the bright green coma that surrounds them. the He eats It is a shell that forms around a comet when it passes close by suncausing the ice to rise, or directly turn into a gas, so that it appears hazy telescopes.
It is worth noting that ZTF It is a systematic search plan in the northern hemisphere for transient astronomical phenomena of short duration, from seconds to years, using a device with 16 cameras of maximum resolution, which are connected to a telescope Samuel Oshin in it Palomar Observatoryin San Diego, California.
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