Devil Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks to Return to Milky Way Solar System on April 21 2024 – Astronomers Predict Visible With Naked Eye During Solar Eclipse

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – The devil comet will return to visit the Milky Way solar system on April 21 2024. This comet, officially named 12/P Pons-Brooks, appears in the solar system every 71 years.

It was nicknamed “the devil” because of the two “horns” of gas and dust that formed from the unusual eruption. This comet will be an interesting celestial object to observe in 2024.

Interestingly, this devil’s comet will appear at the closest point to the earth and the sun. Even so, the appearance of the devil’s comet is not dangerous for the earth.

Launching the live Science page on Thursday (13/03/2024), there is a possibility that this giant comet can also be seen with the naked eye during the solar eclipse on April 8 2024 tomorrow. Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks can provide an opportunity for observers of celestial bodies to see the shape of a comet from a relatively close distance.

If the sky is clear and dark enough, astronomers say people around the world can see it with the naked eye. So far, astronomers have been able to see the comet’s movement through special, sophisticated telescopes.

The devil’s comet was detected to appear twice in the last four months, namely in July 2023 and early October 2024. During the solar eclipse, Comet Pons-Brooks should be near Jupiter during the eclipse.

To find it, astronomers recommend looking to the left of the completely obscured sun. About an arm’s length away will be Jupiter, which will look like a bright point, like a star.

Using the planet as a reference, you might find a comet nearby when scanning the surroundings with binoculars. Basically, comets consist of dust, frozen gas, ice and rocks that were bound together due to the formation of the solar system.

The closer it is to the sun, the comet’s temperature will warm and its color will become brighter. Meanwhile, the ice will turn into gas and remove dust.

The dust will change to form a tail which is often associated with comets. Previously, the devil’s comet experienced its most powerful eruption, so it is likely to lose its iconic horns.

The eruption of a giant volcanic comet speeding towards the Sun occurred in November 2023. Apart from causing it to lose its horns, the eruption was tracked to trigger a rare green color and a mysterious ‘shadow’.

This comet is a cryovolcanic comet, or cold volcano, consisting of an icy shell, or core, filled with ice and gas. When a comet absorbs enough solar radiation, the comet’s frozen interior, or cryomagma, becomes very hot.

Pressure builds inside the core until the shell cracks and the comet’s icy contents gush out into space. After the eruption, the comet’s coma (an obscure, reflective cloud of cryomagma and dust) expands and makes the comet appear brighter to astronomers because it reflects sunlight.

Each time the comet blows its top, the coma expands into an irregular shape with “dark streaks” that make it look like it grows a pair of horns.

On November 14, 2023, 12P experienced another major eruption, the most extreme eruption so far. Astronomers watched as the comet temporarily became 100 times brighter than normal in the following days as its coma expanded.

2024-03-13 20:00:00
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