A photographer has caught on camera a massive comet coming towards Earth - and it's called C19.

The comet, named C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), is pictured glimmering in space by Jamie Cooper in Lincolnshire.

The celestial body will be visible to the naked eye within weeks as it zooms brightly in the atmosphere.

In one picture a fuzzy outer-layer of light can also be seen around the comet, known as the coma.

The comet was first spotted on the 28th December 2019, days before the first reported cases of coronavirus in Wuhan, China.

Astrophotographer Jamie loves to take pictures of the natural world and can add C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) to his collection.

He said: ''Comets have been feared throughout human history as harbingers of doom.

"Well there is one heading our way Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) - which is expected to reach naked eye visibly in the coming weeks, just as humanity braces its self in the midst of a global pandemic.

"I managed to photograph the comet approaching on Sunday evening through a small telescope.

"The comet has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1844, leading to speculation on whether C/2019 Y4 is a fragment of the same parent body."

The travelling space body is reported to only be a few kilometres wide but it's atmosphere has grown increasingly big, now believed to be about half as wide as the Sun.

Read the original here:

Comet coming towards the Earth caught on camera, and it's called C19 - MyLondon