Last Chance For 800 Centuries To See Comet As It Gets Closest To Earth
ATLAS, which should this weekend become a naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky from the northern hemisphere.
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A rare comet could be visible in the Southern Tier. What to know, when to look
Kopernik Observatory Executive Director Drew Deskur discusses how to view rare comet that will be visible in the Southern ...
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UAF to offer comet viewing — if the weather cooperates
The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least ...
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS stuns in photos at perihelion
Photographers around the world are capturing stunning views of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the best comet this year.
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS nears the sun this month. Will it be visible to the naked eye?
When the Purple Mountain Observatory (Tsuchinshan) near Nanjing, China photographed a faint object in mid-January 2023, it was initially thought to be an asteroid. Six weeks later on Feb. 23 ...
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How to see October's 'comet of the century' in Indiana before it disappears
In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid. Scientists a month later at the ...
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: The comet of the year is here
The comet’s name comes from the two observatories that discovered it: the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (also known as the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory ...
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Will This Comet Be the Brightest of 2024?
Astronomers discovered it in January 2023 as an asteroidlike dot in images of the sky taken at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. It was very faint and in subsequent weeks wasn’t seen ...
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Minor planet named after China's top medical scientist Zhong Nanshan
A minor planet has been named after Chinese medical scientist Zhong Nanshan in recognition of his contribution to science at ...
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may dazzle this weekend. But is the best yet to come?
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will have a close encounter with the sun today (Sept. 27) here's how to make the most of comet viewing opportunities this weekend and beyond. Excitement is building as ...
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This Western Town Is Now Home to the Only Observatory and Planetarium on a Ski Resort In the U.S.
Snow King Mountain in Jackson, Wyoming, now has the nation's only ski resort with an observatory and planetarium.
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Celestial spectacle: The 'comet of the year' soon to adorn the sky
The most anticipated comet of 2024, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) can be observed by the naked eye in the western sky after ...