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Space.com on MSNSee interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom through solar system in new telescope imagery (video)Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.
Your unusual chance to see a comet in the sky is here. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers in 2023 — and will appear to the naked eye over the next couple weeks.
Comet A3 could be bright enough to see with naked eye 02:27. BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye.But, in a year already filled with so many ...
The comet appears to burn a bright, lime green color in photographs. But Fraknoi says don't look for something green in the sky. "The naked eye just shows a fuzzy white glow," he said.
Researchers got an up-close look at the largest comet ever observed, C/2014 UN271, hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud and measuring 85 miles across with jets of carbon monoxide gas.
A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, makes its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. The comet’s next appearance may be in 80,000 years.
When comet C/2024 G3 reaches perihelion, it will come within just 13.5 million kilometers of the sun—for context, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, orbits the star at a distance of 47 ...
Astronomers recently got a close-up look at the comet, known as C/2014 UN271, flying through deep space with the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile.
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