Pictures show once-in-a-lifetime comet dart across South Carolina sky

A comet that won't fly by Earth for another 80,000 years was captured in mesmerizing pictures zooming across the skies of South Carolina.

The once-in-a-lifetime comet, nicknamed A3, emerged from the Oort Cloud - a bubble-shaped, mysterious phenomenon that holds our within it.

Stargazers anxiously awaited what they labeled the 'comet of the century', that was last seen 8,000 decades ago.

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