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Bigger than the sun?

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That’s Comet 17P/Holmes (left), at least in the 1.4 million kilometer diameter of its dust cloud. But it’s nowhere near the mass of the sun, of course, compared here to Saturn. Thank goodness. Got a little scary there for a minute, right? It’s also an unaided-eye fuzzball in the Constellation Perseus.