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Some scientist believe the comet will make the Sigma Hyrdids meteor shower more active.
Discovered in recent weeks, early analysis of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) shows it could be visible, possibly very visible, to the naked eye by September 2024.
Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) makes its closest approach to Earth this week for the first time in 50,000 years. Monday will be the best night to see it before clouds roll in for its midweek pass-by of Earth more than 20 million miles away
A rare third, "anti-tail" appeared on Comet ZTF over the weekend.
A recently discovered comet will soon make an appearance in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years.
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Recently discovered comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is brightening as it approaches the Sun.
Comets aren't the only ones with tails streaming behind. Bombarded by the solar wind, Mercury and even our own Moon, form a thin tail of material lifted from their surfaces by the solar wind.
Leonard was discovered in January by Astronomer Greg Leonard from the Mount Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
Leonard is a recently-discovered comet that has been traveling for the past year from where it was first detected, close to Jupiter toward the sun.
Long period comet Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is visible in the pre dawn skies. Find where and when to catch a glimpse of this icy visitor, and tips for seeing it.
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) may become the brightest comet of the year. Data: Minor Planet Center, Image: Rice/Stellarium
Astronomers will be keeping an eye on Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard), discovered Jan 3, 2021. It could be the brightest comet of the year as it approaches in late December 2021.
Saturday, July 25, 2020 -- On a recent weekend, AP photographer Gerry Broome was granted special after-hours access to the iconic peak to accompany North Carolina photographer and amateur astronomer Johnny Horne on a trip to make images of the comet discovered in March.
This weekend is likely your last opportunity to see the comet. We'll next see this icy visitor in 7,158 years.
Saturn and Jupiter shine and catch Comet NEOWISE before it leaves for a few thousand years.
Here are all the weather photos you have sent in to us over the past couple days. You have snapped beautiful pics of starry skies, lightning, sunrises, sunsets and rainbows. If you have a picture you want to send us, go to our WRAL report it page.
Comet NEOWISE has dimmed but is expected to be visible in the evening skies through the weekend.
Here are your weather photos over the past couple of days that show us what's been going on with the weather -- beautiful sunsets, storm clouds, comets and rainbows. To send us a photo, go to our WRAL Report it page.
The best time to look in central North Carolina is between 4:30 and 5 a.m., when the comet has risen a few degrees above the horizon but before the brightening sky makes it increasingly difficult to see the comet.
