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The Oort Cloud comet called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will make its first close pass by Earth in mid-October and won’t be back for another 80,000 years Image credits: Gerald Rhemann Image ...
According to NASA, the comet was discovered in 2023 at China’s Tsuchinshan Observatory and on an ATLAS telescope in South Africa, eventually getting the name Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. While the ...
Comet A3, or Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, is still visible in the Northern Hemisphere this weekend. The comet takes 80,000 years to orbit the sun, so Neanderthals were among the last people to see it.
Discovered last year, the comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible in the California sky on Saturday night for the first time in 80,000 years.
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. [ 10 ]
Comet Tsuchinshan may refer to any comets below discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory: 60P/Tsuchinshan 2; 62P/Tsuchinshan 1; C/1977 V1 (Tsuchinshan) C/2017 E2 (Tsuchinshan) C/2021 S4 (Tsuchinshan) C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), also known as the Great Comet of 2024; C/2025 A3 (Tsuchinshan)
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instrument, LASCO C3, captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and the Sun on Oct. 9 and 10 (U ...
If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it. Summary Description Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS over Ohio (Composite).jpg