A Queensland astrophysicist is warning stargazers that a once-in-50,000-year comet may be a let down, but there are other key space events you should be looking out for.
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While NASA pointed out comets were "notoriously unpredictable", it said C/2022 E3 would at least be visible via binoculars if its current trend in brightness continued.Jonti Horner is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland. "At best, it's barely going to be visible with the naked eye, low in our northern sky, in mid-February."Spectacular view of Venus
"Venus is great, because it's one of these things that — at least until Elon Musk and his Starlink satellites — Venus was the primary object that was the cause of UFO reports," he said.
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