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Looking Skyward: The Discovery of a Massive and Distant Comet

CAI | By John Basile
Published July 9, 2021 at 3:19 PM EDT
An artist’s impression of the comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein
NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
An artist’s impression of the comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein

In this installment of our Looking Skyward series, CAI’s John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the discovery of a new and massive comet.
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John Basile is the local host of Morning Edition.
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