Green Comet 2023: Rare shooting star to make first appearance after 50,000 years — Check date, visible time, where to watch Live in India

Green Comet 2023, Green Comet India, Green Comet Name, Green Comet Earth: A rare green-hued comet is expected to be the most visible to stargazers as it passes Earth for the first time in about 50,000 years.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is expected to be most visible to stargazers this week, is seen journeying tens of millions of miles (km) away from Earth in this telescope image taken on Jauary 21, 2023. Pic: Reuters

Green Comet 2023, Green Comet India, Green Comet Name, Green Comet Earth: A rare green-hued comet is expected to be the most visible to stargazers as it passes Earth for the first time in about 50,000 years. As per NASA, the comet will swing by Earth at a distance of about 26.4 million miles of Earth on Wednesday before speeding away again, unlikely to return for millions of years.

Green Comet Name

The green comet's formal name is C/2022 E3 (ZTF).

Where to watch Green Comet C /2022 E3 Live

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that Neanderthal Comet will shift to the northwest on the horizon throughout January. The comet will make its closest pass of Earth between February 1 and February 2.

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NASA in its "What's Up" blog wrote, "Comets are notoriously unpredictable, but if this one continues its current trend in brightness, it'll be easy to spot with binoculars, and it's just possible it could become visible to the unaided eye under dark skies."

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Green Comet

Green Comet was discovered on March 2, 2022, by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in San Diego.

(Pic: Reuters)

Green Comet Composition

The comet's greenish hue reflects the comet's chemical composition. "It is the result of a clash between sunlight and carbon-based molecules in the comet's coma," a Reuters report said.
NASA plans to observe the comet with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It could provide clues regarding the solar system's formation.

"We're going to be looking for the fingerprints of given molecules that we can't access from the ground," said planetary scientist Stefanie Milam of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. "Because JWST's so sensitive, we're expecting new discoveries," the report added.