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[i]NASA has [URL=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-neowise-mission-spies-one-comet-maybe-two]announced[/URL] that a comet currently zooming through the inner Solar System will be so bright over the next week that we should be able to see it in the night sky with binoculars. The comet was first detected by NASA's NEOWISE mission in October, and its trajectory is currently taking it on a safe pass by Earth as it approaches the Sun. But as it zooms by, it should be so bright between now and January 14 that we'll be able to see it using just binoculars, and maybe even with the naked eye. The comet, called C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars, although we can't be sure because a comet's brightness is notoriously unpredictable," said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies.[/i]
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