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Hyde Memorial Observatory is a community astronomical observatory located in Lincoln, Nebraska (USA) surrounded Holmes lake. It is run totally by volunteers, furnished through public donations, and devoted purely to public viewing.
Scientists say comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is visible once every 80,000 years, and people across North America were treated to stunning views. Striking photos show stunning, once-in-a ...
A bright comet has made a rare appearance in the sky, and skywatchers will have several opportunities to see it before it retreats into the icy depths of space. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as ...
After Sunday, Comet A3 will probably be visible in the sky for the rest of October and part of early November, but maybe only with binoculars or a telescope, according to Space.com. Where to go ...
48P/Johnson is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 5.74 km (3.57 mi) in diameter by Lamy, Fernandez, and Weaver. [ 2 ] Meanwhile, David C. Jewitt and Scott S. Sheppard estimate the nucleus to have dimensions of 6.0 × 4.4 km (3.7 × 2.7 mi).
On the next evening he saw the nebulosity by unassisted eye and confirmed it to be a comet due to its motion in the sky. On August 15 Messier estimated the length of the comet's tail to be 6°. Giovanni Domenico Maraldi and César François Cassini de Thury saw the comet for the first time on August 22 by telescope and later by unassisted eye.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is expected to come within approximately 44 million miles of Earth on Saturday. Comet visible with naked eye in sky this weekend comes around only every 80,000 years Skip ...
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun.It is potentially the brightest comet of 2025, [6] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [5]