City-size comet headed toward Earth ‘grows horns’ after massive volcanic eruption

A rare volcanic comet on a trajectory toward the sun has exhibited a remarkable event, leading to its “horn-like” appearance after an explosion that caused it to radiate like a miniature star and disperse supercold “magma” into space.

This unusual comet, known as 12P/Pons-Brooks (12P), is a cryovolcanic comet, distinguished by its icy composition containing a combination of ice, dust, and gas.

Enveloped by a gaseous cloud called a coma, the celestial object typically expels gas from its core, Live Science has reported.

However, 12P’s nucleus accumulates an excess of gas and ice, resulting in violent eruptions that propel its icy contents, referred to as cryomagma, through fissures in its outer shell.

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