SpaceWeather.com reports, "University of Hawaii astronomers have measured the diameter of Comet 17P/Holmes: 1.4 million kilometers. This makes the exploding comet bigger than the sun and now the largest object in the solar system. Not surprisingly, the comet is visible to the naked eye; with only a backyard telescope you can watch its gigantic debris cloud expand from night to night."
Don't worry about that "bigger than the Sun" statement, SpaceWeather notes that the sun remains the most massive object in the solar system. The astronomers measured Comet 17P/Holmes' atmosphere of dust and gas, which contains less mass than a typical asteroid, so the diameter of the dust cloud is big in size but not in mass. Still, Comet 17P/Holmes is a pretty spectacular celestial event.
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