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Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A "mega comet" is making its way towards the sun and heading straight towards the inner solar system where Earth lies.The Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is so large that experts originally thought it could be a dwarf planet which sparked debate between astronomers.It has taken researchers seven years to identify it as a huge comet after it was first spotted back in 2014 by Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein from the University of Pennsylvania.Everything we need to know about the comet, which is labelled as C/2014 UN271, has been revealed in a discovery paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters.The 100 mile-wide comet, which is named after the two astronomers who discovered

space and towards our solar system as a comet.The alien object was designated as a comet Wednesday, June 23, just a week after it was first observed as a tiny, moving dot in archival images from the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.It's so big that experts had previously thought the comet was a minor planet and has the largest comet nucleus ever seen.The comet will now be known as Comet C/2014 UN271, or Bernardinelli-Bernstein after its discoverers, University of Pennsylvania graduate student Pedro Bernardinelli and astronomer Gary Bernstein.