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Watch: Largest comet in the Solar System is hurtling toward the Sun

Plus, you might get a chance to see it — in about 10 years.

by Jennifer Walter
Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli & G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.

At this very moment, a massive, newly-discovered comet is hurtling toward the inner Solar System.

No, it isn’t projected to hit Earth.

But the reason why researchers have their eye on it is much more interesting.

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