The year's brightest comet streaks by Earth this weekend

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 1433 GMT (2233 HKT) December 14, 2018

This illustration shows a massive star on the brink of explosion.
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This illustration shows a massive star on the brink of explosion.
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Meet the fastest asteroid in our solar system, which zips around the sun every 113 days. This artist's rendering shows the asteroid 2021 PH27 (top right) and Mercury (below) orbiting the sun.
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Meet the fastest asteroid in our solar system, which zips around the sun every 113 days. This artist's rendering shows the asteroid 2021 PH27 (top right) and Mercury (below) orbiting the sun.
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A ghostly set of X-ray rings were found around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes.
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A ghostly set of X-ray rings were found around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes.
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This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, shows the PDS 70 system 400 light-years away. This planetary system is still forming and still in the process of being formed. One of the planets in the system has a moon-forming disk around it.
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This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, shows the PDS 70 system 400 light-years away. This planetary system is still forming and still in the process of being formed. One of the planets in the system has a moon-forming disk around it.</