Milky way he will soon be at the center of a phenomenon that will happen only once in the lives of people on Earth, and which extraordinarily many generations will not have the opportunity to see. More precisely, a comet known as SWAN is about to re-enter the Milky Way, returning to our galaxy 25 million years away from the moment it passed here for the last time, so a very, very long time ago.
Milky way it has many comets, meteorites, etc., which move very quickly through its interior, but this is one of the most important because the last time it passed by the Earth, dinosaurs lived here. The comet has an elliptical orbit around the sun in the Milky Way, and therefore it needs 25 million years to complete it, so it passed then, and will return soon, and many will be able to observe it in 2020.
The Milky Way: A HUGE ONCE-in-a-Lifetime Phenomenon
Milky way is going to have this comet positioned closest to the Earth on May 12, while towards the end of the month it will be closer to the sun. Also during that period it would be so well lit that it could be visible to the naked eye in the sky, which would make it easier to observe than many stars, meteorites, comets, asteroids, which are walking around at the moment from the front through the Milky Way, even close to Earth.
Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) tail wiggle from April 20. Just over an hour of motion. pic.twitter.com/B5krpPnGMG
— Terry Lovejoy (@TerryLovejoy66) April 20, 2020
Milky way it has so many objects inside it that the sky above the Earth would have a very big change if even this comet were visible to the naked eye. It is not the first one that should reach the Earth and be visible with the naked eye, but one called Atlas disintegrated in the Milky Way before reaching us, so it was no longer visible, so now SWAN is the next one should go through this phenomenon.
Milky way it is the host for many objects of this kind, but for now there is no other comet that has been discovered and that is expected to be so close to the Earth.
