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The comet was dubbed the Great Comet of 2007 by Space.com. [10] On 13 and 14 January 2007, the comet attained an estimated maximum apparent magnitude of −5.5. [11] It was bright enough to be visible in daylight about 5°–10° southeast of the Sun from 12 to 14 January. [12]
A comet that orbits the Sun every 160,000 years will appear in the night sky this week, offering a rare chance. The Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is expected to be the brightest comet in nearly 20 years ...
Comet McNaught as the Great Comet of 2007. A great comet is a comet that becomes exceptionally bright. There is no official definition; often the term is attached to comets such as Halley's Comet, which during certain appearances are bright enough to be noticed by casual observers who are not looking for them, and become well known outside the astronomical community.
The object was discovered by a team using the WISE space telescope under the NEOWISE program on March 27, 2020. [1] It was classified as a comet on March 31 and named after NEOWISE on April 1. [5] It has the systematic designation C/2020 F3, indicating a non-periodic comet which was the third discovered in the second half of March 2020.
Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to make its return for a close encounter with the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers the chance to spot one of the brightest comets in 20 years from Earth.
Telescopes in space have provided stunning new images of Comet A3, the so-called “comet of the century”.. The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found ...
Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a long-period comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades. [11] [12] [13] Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp discovered Comet Hale–Bopp separately on July 23, 1995, before it became visible to the naked eye.
Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. [1] It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996 ; its passage to within 0.1 AU (15 Gm) of the Earth on 25 March was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years.