belbalady.net A new explosion recorded by astronomical observation data, on comet 29P / Schwassmann-Wachman, on November 22, 2022, resulted in an increase in its brightness by more than 4 times, which is the second largest explosion in a comet in more than 10 years.
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The Astronomical Society in Jeddah said that this event reminds us of what happened with the comet 17P / Holmes in the year 2007, when it exploded unexpectedly, which led to its brightness a million times until it became visible to the naked eye and the comet’s coma (the dust layer) expanded.
And the gas surrounding the nucleus of the comet) is larger than Jupiter, and within three weeks it became larger than the sun itself.
The astronomical society pointed out that the cause of that explosion is believed to be a change in a cave of ice, hundreds of meters below the crust of the comet’s nucleus, from amorphous to crystalline, which releases enough heat during the transition that led to the comet’s explosion.
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Source: “Al-Wafd”