Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter and experienced stargazer who covers the night sky, astro-tourism, the northern lights and space exploration. He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and is the author of A Stargazing Program for Beginners. Writing for Forbes.
extreme G5 geomagnetic stormWhat's next? We'll likely all get a rare chance to see a comet in the night sky with our naked eyes when, during September and October, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visits the inner solar system.Currently visible to those in the southern hemisphere but due to drop into the daytime sky next week, the comet—pronouncedThe brightness of comets is hard to predict; it could brighten significantly or fade to nothing.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers at China’s Purple Mountain Observatory in January 2023. A month later it was also independently found by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System search station in Sutherland, South Africa.. They're leftovers from the solar system's formation, and a comet nucleus can be from a few miles to tens of miles wide. At 12-25 miles across, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is very large.
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