Largest known comet has been traveling for millions of years - CNN

Jul 26, 2021

The giant comet, also known as C/2014 UN271, is from the outskirts of our solar system and has been making its way toward our sun for millions of years.

This is also the most distant comet to be discovered on its inbound journey, which will provide scientists a chance to observe and study it for years to come.

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein was found in six years of data collected by the Dark Energy Camera, which is located on the Víctor M.

The comet came from the Oort Cloud of objects, an isolated group of icy objects that are more distant than anything else in our solar system.

Scientists believe this is where comets come from, but they have never actually observed an object within the Oort Cloud.

The Oort Cloud is located between 2,000 and 100,000 astronomical units from the sun.

It may be just one of many giant comets originating in the Oort Cloud.