Joe Rao is Space.com's skywatching columnist, as well as a veteran meteorologist and eclipse chaser who also serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmers' Almanac and other publications.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesComet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS has been shining in the night sky over the last few weeks. This photo taken from the International Space Station shows the comet hanging above our planet's glowing atmosphere.
In the days following its sweep around the sun, Ikeya-Seki was a spectacular sight in the late October and early November morning skies. An incredibly brilliant, twisted tail stretched up from the east-southeast horizon an hour or two before sunrise, appearing like a slender searchlight beam about as long as the
Beginning in 1979, orbiting space observatories began to detect sungrazing comets using instruments called coronagraphs. A coronagraph is designed to look at the solar atmosphere by blocking out the bright disk of the sun. Tiny sungrazing comets, which normally would be too faint and too near to the glare of the sun for us to see, can be picked up using a coronagraph.
Comet ATLAS, however, appeared to be much larger, perhaps a mile or two across, causing some to speculate that it could become very bright. For instance, Japanese comet expert Seiichi Yoshhida has suggested thatCOBS So, it would appear that those who believe they will get a view before sunrise of a"Great Halloween Comet" in 2024 will, like Linus, almost certainly be disappointed.
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