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- There's a new comet in the sky that has gained a lot of attention lately over its potential to become visible to the naked eye. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was discovered by observatories in China and South Africa in early 2023.
www.cbc.ca/news/science/comet-c2023-a3-1.7327152A comet may become visible to the unaided eye in the coming ...
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Sep 23, 2024 · There's a new comet in the sky that has gained a lot of attention lately over its potential to become visible to the naked eye. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was discovered by ...
- New comet makes historically close approach to Earth today ...
There's a newly discovered comet in the sky, and it's about...
- New comet makes historically close approach to Earth today ...
Sep 12, 2023 · There's a newly discovered comet in the sky, and it's about to make its closest flyby of Earth. Comet Nishimura (C/2023 P1) will zip past the planet at a distance of roughly 125 million...
- A Bright Comet For September and October?
- How Bright Will It get?
- How to See Comet A3 in September
- Comet A3 in October
- A Speedy Ball of Ice and Dust
- Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas’S Disintegration Rumors
- Discovery and Naming
- The Comet in Social Media
The rumors of Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS’s demise were premature. Earlier in 2024, there were reports that the comet was breaking up. But instead, the comet is now coming into morning skies and appears to be in good shape. Its current brightness would put it just within reach of the unaided eye from a dark country site, at magnitude 3. With ordinar...
Comets are unpredictable. And there’s no way to know at this time exactly how bright Comet A3 will become. But preliminary estimates suggest it might reach magnitude 4 to 3 (the lower the number, the brighter) around the time of its closest approach to the sun – or perihelion– on September 27. The exciting part might come afterwards. It could grow ...
Observers in the Southern Hemisphere had the best seats to view the comet during the first half of September. Observers closer to Earth’s equator will get their first opportunities by the end of the month. One caveat: observers would require a clear, unobstructed view of the eastern horizon. By the end of September, Comet A3 will gradually make the...
After the comet gets closest to the sun, it will swing around near Earth. But as it does so, it passes almost directly between Earth and the sun, making it challenging to view. In early October, the comet will be in the dawn sky in Leo and near the constellations Hydra and Crater. Starting from October 13 to 14, Comet A3 will be easier to spot on t...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is blazingly speedy. It’s tearing through the inner solar system at 180,610 miles per hour (290,664 kph) or 80.74 km per second relative to Earth. With a small telescope, you can actually see its amazing speed. You can watch the comet’s location gradually change by comparing its exact position against background stars just 1...
Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS hasn’t been acting as people expected it to. As it was approaching the inner solar system in early 2024, it wasn’t brightening as much as expected. And then a studysuggested the cometary nucleus was fragmenting. The paper’s author, Zdenek Sekanina, a Czech-American astronomer and comet expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labo...
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in South Africa discovered Comet C/2023 A3 on February 22, 2023. Additionally, observers at Purple Mountain (Zijin Shin or Tsuchinshan) Observatoryin China found the comet independently on images from January 9, 2023. Therefore, the comet also has the nickname Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. At...
Bottom line: Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survived its rumored disintegration and may become the brightest comet of the year this September and October. Source: Inevitable Endgame of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3)
1 day ago · A BIG NEW SUNGRAZING COMET: Today, many astronomers are excited about a new comet discovered just a few days ago by the ATLAS survey. It's so new, it doesn't have a name yet, just the provisional ...
Jan 6, 2023 · On Feb. 1, comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will pass to within 28 million miles (42 million km) of our planet, its first visit in 50,000 years.
A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on Wednesday. Astronomers say the object's journey toward us took around 50,000 years.
Mar 4, 2023 · The newly discovered comet C/2023 A3 is making a close approach around the sun for the first time in 80,000 years, and might be as bright as a star in fall 2024.
