The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is named after its discoverers, University of Washington postdoctoral scholar Pedro Bernardinelli, and University of Pennsylvania cosmologist Gary Bernstein, who first spotted the comet in the Dark Energy Survey dataset.
Largest comet ever observed bumps Hale-Bopp from pedestal
February 14, 2022 | LIVEScience, Stephanie Pappas
