As hype builds for a one-kilometre-wide comet of ice and dust to soar past Earth for the first time in 50,000 years, one astrophysicist says there will be far more interesting things to turn skyward for this year.
According to NASA, comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered in March last year and could be visible to the naked eye for the first time since about 48,000BC on February 2.