A mega-comet, which scientists thought was a dwarf planet, is approaching our solar system

Some are calling this “PLANET X” or the planet with the Anunnaki! BUT What we know is that astronomers believe it will pass through our planetary system at its closest approach a decade from now, in the year 2031. It will most likely brush by Saturn’s orbit.

The celestial giant is known as the Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet in honor of the astronomers who discovered it, and has a diameter of a whopping 100 miles (160 km). This makes it the largest comet ever discovered. This comet is larger than Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos combined (and is also the exact same diameter as the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi).

P.S. – If you’re wondering where it came from, researchers think it originated in the nuvem d’orte — an imaginary zone that encircles the Solar System’s ends.

Only circumstantial evidence hints at the zone’s existence, however, due to a lack of actual observations. pic.twitter.com/RV8ru2ZBDs

— The Weather Channel India (@weatherindia) September 29, 2021

The Bernardinelli-Bernstein is a massive comet, and yet don’t worry there is no cause for concern here on the blue marble we inhabit. Bernardinelli-Bernstein will pass about 11 AU (Astronomical Units – the distance between the Sun and Earth) from the Sun. At that distance, it will most likely skim by Saturn’s orbit between Uranus, posing no threat to Earth. Unless there are Aliens on there just waiting to unleash their evil Alien voodoo on us all, and invade this world for shits, and giggles. Ok let’s all breath in, and out for a second… So before its approach to Saturn, scientists believe the comet will begin to demonstrate classic characteristics of other comets, like the formation of a tail and coma, making it more distinguishable. In the coming decade, the Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet will likely put on quite a display for astronomers and leave us Earthlings in an utter state of amazement.

Scientists reveal first-ever photo of a solar system like ours

This is cool, and none political for once! Heh not that I’m tired of politics but I love science, and space, and well scientists have captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own. The new image is a family portrait of sorts, showing two giant exoplanets orbiting a young, sun-like star, roughly 300 light years away. The picture was taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. According to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the system will help astronomers better understand how our solar system formed and evolved. The star, known as TYC 8998-760-1 and located in the Southern constellation of Musca, is only 17 million years old, which researchers called a “very young version of our own sun.” Comparatively, the sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old. Both planets orbiting the star, dubbed TYC 8998-760-1b and TYC 8998-760-1c, are suspected to be gas giants, meaning they are composed primarily of gases like helium and hydrogen. However, they are much further away from their host star than our gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, at distances of 160 and about 320 times the Earth-sun distance. They are also much heavier than the gas giants in our solar system. 

The image shows the two planets, which appear as two bright points of light, distantly orbiting their parent star, located in the upper left corner. Because they formed so recently, they still glow brightly enough to be seen from Earth. It marks the first time astronomers have observed more than a single planet orbiting a star similar to the sun. Only two similar systems have ever been previously observed both with stars uniquely different to ours.

“This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution,” lead researcher Alexander Bohn, a PhD student at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said in a press release. Co-author Matthew Kenworthy, an associate professor at Leiden University, said that these kinds of direct observations are crucial in the hunt for planets that can support life. “Even though astronomers have indirectly detected thousands of planets in our galaxy, only a tiny fraction of these exoplanets have been directly imaged,” he said. Only a few dozen of the exoplanets so-far discovered have been directly imaged, according to NASA. Scientists hope that further research will reveal if the young planets formed at their current location or migrated from somewhere else and how they might interact with each other. With us close to destroying this planet is good to know we’re activily looking for another world to destroy next! YAY SCIENCE! LMAO!