Late next month Earth will receive a new celestial visitor named Lulin - or Comet C/2007 N3 - which astronomers say may have never visited this corner of the solar system before and should be visible to the naked eye.
Astronomer and author Gary Kronk, based in St Jacob, Illinois, estimates that by 24 February, Lulin's gas tail should appear as long as around eight times the diameter of a full Moon. At that time it will be a mere 38 million miles from Earth, almost as close as Mars reaches to our planet.
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