{"id":255,"date":"2023-02-04T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T09:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=255"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T06:40:13","slug":"green-comet-passes-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/green-comet-passes-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Comet Passes Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A green comet  has passed Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. The comet, C\/2022 EF(ZTF) , was <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to find for the first time\">discovered<\/a> by <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"person who studies the planets and the stars\">astronomers<\/a> almost a year ago. It turned around the sun two weeks ago and passed the earth at a distance of about 26 million miles (42 million km).   <\/p>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"inner or main part\">core<\/a> of the comet is about 1 km wide and its tail <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"reach; go from one end to the other\">extends<\/a> for millions of miles. It gets its green colour from the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"chemical substance; chemical element C\">carbon<\/a> in the gas cloud it produces. Comets are pieces of rock, ice, and <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"dry powder made up of small piece of dirt\">dust<\/a> that are left over from the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"the making, the beginning\">creation<\/a> of the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"the sun and the planets that go around it\">solar system<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<p>The comet could be seen as a bright green <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"small, round spot or mark\">dot<\/a> with <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"a long object used for making things that are far away look larger and closer\">telescopes<\/a> and even with the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"without using a telescope\">naked eye<\/a>. It is brighter than other comets because it is closer to earth.<\/p>\n\n<p>The green comet <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"where something comes from\">originated<\/a> in the outer part of our solar system and moves in an <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"the shape of a circle but with two longer  and flatter sides\">elliptical<\/a> <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to move around an object\">orbit<\/a> around the sun. Because of the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"when a planet or the sun pulls an object towards itself\">gravitational pull<\/a> of other planets, comets can change their <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"the way around something\">paths<\/a> so that  C\/2022 EF(ZTF) may not come back at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/green-comet.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/green-comet.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/green-comet-600x401.png 600w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/green-comet-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/green-comet-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) viewed from observatory in Palermo<\/strong> <br><em>Image : <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:C2022_E3_(ZTF)-_Alessandro_Bianconi.png\">Edu INAF<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A green comet has passed Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. The comet, C\/2022 EF(ZTF) , was discovered by astronomers almost a year ago. It turned around the sun two weeks ago and passed the earth at a distance of about 26 million miles (42 million km). 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