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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, or Comet A3, is a dusty ball of ice from the Oort Cloud that takes about 80,000 years to orbit the sun. That means some of the last people to see it were Neanderthals .
The comet should be visible but will gradually sink in the western sky until it sets at 8:27 pm. Between October 14th and October 22nd, A3 will become visible a little higher in the sky and set a ...
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered by ATLAS-HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October 2024, at a distance of about 0.008 AU (1.2 million km; 0.74 million mi) from the barycenter of the Solar System, [ 1 ] and disintegrated.
A time-lapse of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) captured on 10 May 2024. By January 2024, the comet had brightened to an apparent magnitude of 13.6 and according to Bob King, author in Sky & Telescope magazine, was visible through 15-inch telescopes at ×142 magnification. [11]
The comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, (A3 for short) survived its close transit of the sun and is visible in the western sky. According to WMBD Chief Meteorologist Chris Yates, the comet ...
Comet C/2023 A3 will be visible in the sky over the next few days for more than an hour shortly after sunset each night. For those in New Jersey, the sun sets around 6:25 p.m., so the best viewing ...
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a long-period, sungrazing comet, which will reach perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU from the Sun. It could become the brightest comet of 2025, [ 4 ] possibly exceeding apparent magnitude of −3.5.
A rare comet is still glowing over Ohio. Here's how to see it before it's gone, and won't return for 80,000 years. Photos show once-in-a-lifetime comet over Ohio.