ATLAS, which should this weekend become a naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky from the northern hemisphere.
Kopernik Observatory Executive Director Drew Deskur discusses how to view rare comet that will be visible in the Southern ...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least ...
Photographers around the world are capturing stunning views of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the best comet this year.
In January 2023, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid, according to Space.com. A month later, scientists at ...
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 ...
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 ...
A minor planet has been named after Chinese medical scientist Zhong Nanshan in recognition of his contribution to science at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was last seen 80000 years ago will be closest to Earth on October 12.