Largest Comet Ever Discovered is Heading for the Sun

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The Oort cloud is thought to be a shell of icy material that surrounds our Solar System.
No. It’s not a literal shell but based on this illustration [insert image of Oort cloud] you can see that the orbits of these objects are thought to form something of a sphere.
This is where most astronomers think comets, even famous ones like Halley’s comet (which last visited us in 1986 and will make a return trip in 2061) come from.
Most of these objects, much like the objects in the asteroid belt, are relatively small. Ranging from a few meters to several kilometers wide.
But astronomers combing through data from the Dark Energy Survey have stumbled upon something incredible.
The largest comet ever discovered in modern times!



Further Reading:
https://www.space.com/newfound-comet-...
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-e...
https://physicsworld.com/a/huge-oort-....
https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/research...
https://www.space.com/35081-asteroid-...
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/krin....
https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-th....
https://science.howstuffworks.com/ast...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/...




Image Sources:
Oort cloud.png by Pablo Carlos Budassi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Comet Halley close up-cropped.jpg by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
DECam iphone insert.PNG by DES Collaboration - DES Collaboration, CC BY-SA 4.0
2014 UN271.jpg by Tony873004 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein annotated - noirlab2119b.jpg by Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli & G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noi..., CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Illustration of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein.jpg by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva (Spaceengine) - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noi..., CC BY 4.0
Visualization of an asteroid splashing down in one of Earth’s oceans. (Image credit: LLNL)
Subduction-en.svg by KDS4444 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tsunami comic book style.png by Anthony Liekens – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Moon - Giant Impact Hypothesis - Simple model.png by Citronade – own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 International