[NYPOST] As if things didn’t seem apocalyptic enough already, scientists reported that a "horned" comet three times bigger than Mount Everest went kaboom! and is hurtling toward Earth.
The blast originated on Oct. 5 from 12P/Pons-Brooks a cryovolcanic — or cold volcano — comet that measures a colossal 18.6 miles in diameter, or the size of a small city, Live Science reported.
"approximately 4,289 full size refrigerators - the side-by-side ones"
For reference, Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, is 29,029 feet high — or about 5.5 miles.
This marked the second time this interstellar ice cube erupted in the last four months, with the last celestial event occurring in July, the Science Times reported.
The British Astronomical Association, which is closely monitoring 12P, caught wise to this explosion after noticing that it appeared dozens of times brighter due to the light reflected by its coma — the cloud of gas surrounding its center.
For the uninitiated, such eruptions occur when a large level of gas and ice amasses and combusts like a frozen Coke can, causing the comet’s frosty insides to burst out of large cracks that form in the nucleus crust.
In this instance, the arctic blast caused the coma to sprout "horns" like some sort of intergalactic Beelzebub, as seen in accompanying photos.
Scientists also compared the satanic shape to the Millennium Falcon spaceship from "Star Wars," Space Weather Archive reported.
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