Double comet… oh, my god, double comet, all the way across the sky!

If you’re ready to have your mind blown contemplating the vastness of the universe, mark your calendar for tomorrow (October 20) and the few nights following.

One comet would be cool enough to see, but this month it could be possible to see two of them.

Comets are ancient, dirty snowballs that come from the fringes of our solar system. As they drift past the Sun, the ice turns into gas, leaving behind a wispy, shimmery tail.

And two of them, Swan and Lemmon, will be visible at roughly the same time in our cosmic back garden. Just to spoil us a bit more, it will also happen at the same time as the Orionids meteor shower, which is when debris from Halley’s Comet causes a shower of shooting stars.

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