The best astronomical photography of 2022
It has been awarded the first Prize given but the Greenwich Royal Observatory, which is one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world founded in 1675, but also one of the most prestigious, that is where the zero meridian starts, for example.
This observatory organizes every year a contest to choose the best astronomical photograph and this year the winner was the image above, which is gorgeous, it is the comet of C/2021 or Comet Leonard, the photo was taken on Christmas Day 2021 from Namibia in Africa.
The comet was discovered in January 2021 the nucleus of this particular comet is one kilometer in diameter, it had its closest approach to earth on December 12, 2021 at 34.9 million kilometers and on December 18, 2021, it passed only 4.2 million kilometers from venus, if it weren't for the clouds that cover the planet venus wouldn't have been such a spectacular sight, if we could get by on venus t also because unfortunately it is a hellish place.
The tail of the comet has a kind of twisted appearance similar to a serpentine, it is due to the effect of the solar wind , the photograph that I did not tell you about, but was taken by the amateur astronomer astronomer Gerald Rhem谩nn.
Unfortunately we are not going to see this comet again. see, it's a historic photo because according to some calculations this comet is going to leave the solar system, it's going to become an interstellar comet, and according to other calculations it will return, but it will return in at least 80 thousand years, the sun at least seen has thrown very far.
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