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Have you seen comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS yet?
It is the brightest comet in a decade.
NASA said the comet last passed by Earth 80,000 years ago and may never return as the latest data shows its path may take it out of our solar system altogether.
Several neighbors walked up to the top of the hill to see what could be seen.
Ai tells me that "A comet is a small, icy body that orbits the Sun and develops a visible tail of gas and dust when it gets close enough to the Sun, appearing as a glowing streak in the sky; essentially a "dirty snowball" made of ice, rock, and dust left over from the solar system's formation.'
Sunday October 20th provides one of the darkest skies yet in which to see comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with the naked eye
After that, it will be visible only with binoculars for the rest of October and into early November. A telescope will be needed after that
With its 80,000-year orbit, the last people to have seen the comet from Earth were the Neanderthals.
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These photos were all taken on Wednesday Oct. 16. It's also 2024's brightest full 'supermoon' of the year. The Hunters Moon. The moon was bleaching the night sky of the darkness necessary to see the comet, but I was happy with the cell phone photos! Especially considering the comet is 673,923,912 kilometers away!
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