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Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Zaparolli
Explanation:
Comet
C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanÁATLAS)
is growing brighter in planet Earth's sky.
Fondly known as comet A3,
this new visitor to the inner Solar System is traveling from the
distant Oort cloud.
The comet reached perihelion,
its closest approach to the Sun,
on September 27 and will reach perigee, its
closest to our fair planet, on October 12,
by then becoming an evening sky apparition.
But
comet A3
was an early morning riser on September 30
when this image was made.
Its bright coma and already long tail share a pre-dawn skyscape from
Praia Grande, Santa Catarina in southern Brazil with
the waning crescent Moon just peeking above the eastern horizon.
While the behaviour of comets is
notoriously
unpredictable, TsuchinshanÁATLAS could become a
comet
visually rivaling
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE).
Comet NEOWISE
wowed skygazers in the summer of 2020.
Growing Gallery:
Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS in 2024
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 16 Á A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- APOD: 2024 November 11 Á The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas
- APOD: 2024 November 6 Á Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
- APOD: 2024 October 21 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over California
- Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away
- Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS