“It’s extremely close to Earth, but for our scale very far away.”

A comet with a nucleus 50 times larger than normal and 500 billion tons that travels in direction near Earth it was detected by NASA, where it was described as the largest ever seen by the scientific community. The astronomer from the University of Chile, Cesar Fuentestalked with CNN Chile about the scope of this discovery, assuring that it is a low-risk event for the planet. “This close is a relative term with respect to where this comet lives most of its time. It is extremely close to Earth, but for our scale very far“. The expert also explained that “the grace is that it is very large, much larger than other comets that we know.”