The Milky Way is a vast galaxy in which there are millions of stars and planets, but apart from them there are many other millions, over millions, of other objects that move at high speeds within or between the existing solar systems. One of these objects that moves very quickly through the Milky Way is a comet that will arrive in the solar system in the not too distant future, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein, according to those who discovered it.
The Milky Way is the location through which this comet is probably moving at over 100.000 km/h, it being 2.7 billion kilometers away from the solar system, which means that it will not reach us very soon. This is one of the largest comets that have been discovered so far in the Milky Way by researchers, it has a diameter of approximately 150 kilometers, so it has a devastating power.
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The Milky Way is host to many comets of this kind, but this one will arrive somewhere between the orbits of the planets Saturn and Uranus in 2031, when it will be at its shortest distance from the sun, according to current estimates. Then it will be able to be seen as a much stronger light among the stars in the sky, and after that it will continue its journey through the Milky Way, remaining visible even after the 2040s, if not even later.
“More than 2,7 billion miles from the sun – 29 times farther than Earth travels – a small sliver of sunlight was reflected off something hurtling toward our home star. Something frozen. Something unimaginably old. Something big. … it took nearly seven years for researchers to identify that strange point of light as a giant primordial comet – possibly the largest ever studied with modern telescopes.”
The Milky Way is a source of many dangers for the Earth, and this comet would be one of them if it had a trajectory that would intersect with that of our planet, but fortunately this will not happen. Despite this, the Milky Way will be the source of many important discoveries in the future, and that's because many stars and planets are hiding inside it, and humanity can't wait to discover them all as quickly as possible.
The Milky Way hides not only comets, but also very dangerous asteroids that can come close to the Earth at any time, some of them coming very close to our planet in the coming years, but theoretically with no chance of hitting it.
