Comet C/2018 F4 split in two and now the halves are moving away from each other Hui et al.
A comet from the distant reaches of our solar system has been observed splitting in two as it made its way past the sun.
Comet C/2018 F4, initially discovered in 2018, was seen by amateur astronomers breaking into two pieces in September 2020, but what precisely happened was unknown. at the Macau University of Science and Technology in China and his colleagues have now taken a closer look using several telescopes around the world.
They show that the comet’s…
