The rare celestial body will only be visible for a couple of weeks. 9News
A comet discovered in January streaked across Australian skies last night, delighting star-gazers who witnessed the rare celestial body.
It will be visible over the coming weeks, and then after an encounter with our sun it will become an interstellar comet, disappearing forever.Space agency NASA said the space rock will make its closest pass of the sun on January 3, 2022; a journey 40,000 years in the making.
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