A photographer has caught on camera a massive comet coming towards Earth - and it's called C19.<\/p>\n
The comet, named C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), is pictured glimmering in space by Jamie Cooper in Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n
The celestial body will be visible to the naked eye within weeks as it zooms brightly in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
In one picture a fuzzy outer-layer of light can also be seen around the comet, known as the coma.<\/p>\n
The comet was first spotted on the 28th December 2019, days before the first reported cases of coronavirus in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n
Astrophotographer Jamie loves to take pictures of the natural world and can add C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) to his collection.<\/p>\n
He said: ''Comets have been feared throughout human history as harbingers of doom.<\/p>\n
\"Well there is one heading our way Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) - which is expected to reach naked eye visibly in the coming weeks, just as humanity braces its self in the midst of a global pandemic.<\/p>\n
\"I managed to photograph the comet approaching on Sunday evening through a small telescope.<\/p>\n
\"The comet has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1844, leading to speculation on whether C\/2019 Y4 is a fragment of the same parent body.\"<\/p>\n
The travelling space body is reported to only be a few kilometres wide but it's atmosphere has grown increasingly big, now believed to be about half as wide as the Sun.<\/p>\n
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