Don't miss your last chance to get a good look at Comet A3 before it's gone for another 80,000 years
Comet A3 hasn't been past Earth since the Neanderthals. Your last chance to see it is approaching fast. Here's where and how ...
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Magical night - Comet last seen by Neanderthals, almost 80,000 years ago, could be visible over the weekend
Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has been called "the comet of the century" because of how bright and visible it could be, according to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Astronomers said it would ...
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Have you seen the 'comet of the century'?
Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has been seen from Earth for the first time since the Neanderthals were alive, some 80,000 years ago. On Saturday, a number of British stargazers said they had spotted ...
Astronomy7d
Astronomers have spotted the most distant comet ever discovered
Only four other comets have ever shown such activity while approaching from more than 20 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun — as far out as the orbit of Uranus. (One AU is the average Earth ...
Space photo of the week: The last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for half a million years
Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines brightly after its last approach to the sun for hundreds of thousands of years ...
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Article Update: Unistellar Network Detects Faint New Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)
The excitement builds as predictions suggest it could peak in brightness at perihelion, the closest point in its orbit to the Sun ... scattering that it is expected to experience like Comet 2023/A3.
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Features of our solar system
The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...