How to view rare comet predicted to appear in NYC sky starting Thursday night
The comet was discovered in 2023, approaching the inner solar system on its highly elliptical orbit for the first time in documented human history, NASA reports. It was identified by observers at China’s Tsuchinshan -- or “Purple Mountain” -- Observatory and an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South Africa,
ATLAS, which should this weekend become a naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky from the northern hemisphere.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The most anticipated comet of 2024, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) can be observed by the naked eye in the western sky after ...
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