😽 Keepin’ It Simple Summary for Younger Readers👧🏾✊🏾👦🏾
A giant space snowball ☄️ called Comet Lemmon 💚 is zooming past Earth 🌍 right now, and scientists 🔭 using a huge telescope in the mountains ⛰️ near Tucson discovered it! This comet takes about 1,350 years to go around the sun 🌞 just once—the last time it came by, the year was 690 CE (way before your great-great-great-great-great-grandparents 👵👴 were even born).
It’s closest to Earth today and tomorrow, so if you go outside 🌌 about an hour and a half after sunset 🌇 and look toward the northwest sky near the Big Dipper ✨, you might be able to see it with binoculars 🔭. It looks like a fuzzy greenish cloud with a tail 💫, and it’s traveling at 135,000 miles per hour 🌀!
The telescope that found it is right here in Arizona 🏜️ on Mount Lemmon, the same mountain where people go to play in the snow ❄️⛷️ in winter. Scientists there have found more than 50,000 space rocks 🪨🪐, but comets like this one are super rare and special 🌟…