comet 17P/Homes

A most amazing eruption is occurring on comet '17P/Holmes'. The size of this comet was at 17 magnitude on October 24th, then suddenly began to brighten like crazy. Now it has already reached 3rd magnitude and is easily visible to the naked eye as reports from Japan indicate. "Perseus does not look familiar to us (astronomers) due to the bright stellar object now. The comet looks like a bright, yellow star, and only magnification reveals a fuzzy coma around the dusty core." '17P/Holmes' was discovered in 1892 thanks to a similar outburst, and hope is that the further development will be similar now: the coma should expand over time but stay bright for a week or more.