Astronomers recently got a close-up look at the comet, known as C/2014 UN271, flying through deep space with the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile.

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a "once in a lifetime comet" is in plain view of Utahns, due to a near pass of Earth that occurs once every 80,000 years.