A second bright comet is just visible in the early morning sky, close to Venus, Mercury and the leading star of Virgo, Spica. At the moment it's a brilliant object from the southern hemisphere, but once it has swung around the Sun might be as good as Neowise was earlier in the year.
It might be of interest that legendary Astronomers Hoyle and Wickramasinghe were of the opinion that comets might well be a possible carrier of alien viruses from the Oort Cloud or the depths of space to the Earth: it is a fact that throughout history comets have been considered harbingers of doom...
(This is a topic dealt with in one of my books!)
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