By Richard Swieca | 2022-07-30
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![Community photo entitled by Eliot Herman on 07/30/2022 at Siding Springs Australia](https://earthsky.org/upl/gravity_forms/6-d184048789a60d766a02a8e43117298b/2022/07/ES-c2017-and-interstellar-clouds.jpg)
On 07/30/2022 08:00 pm by Eliot Herman| Siding Springs Australia
Comet 2017 K2 is already presenting a striking image months from its predicted maximum brightness. At the time of the image the comet was 277 million km from Earth. The image shows the comet embedded in interstellar gas providing variations of color to frame the comet. Hopefully the best is yet come with the comet.
T69 iTelescope
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