The comet appears to burn a bright, lime green color in photographs. But Fraknoi says don't look for something green in the sky. "The naked eye just shows a fuzzy white glow," he said.

The comet's approach toward Earth coincides with a total solar eclipse on April 8. Around that time, 12P/Pons-Brooks will be at or near perihelion, the point during orbit when it's closest to the sun.

Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) is seen in L'Aquila, Italy, on Sept. 10, 2023 in a photo by Lorenzo Di Cola. (Image credit: Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images) That brings us to Comet Nishimura.

Comet A3 could be bright enough to see with naked eye 02:27. BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye.But, in a year already filled with so many ...

Comet Nishimura is projected to be closest to Earth on Tuesday and at its highest brightness on Sept. 17, making this week the best chance for a glimpse. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Your unusual chance to see a comet in the sky is here. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers in 2023 — and will appear to the naked eye over the next couple weeks.

A rare comet, visible once every 80,000 years, graced the Texas sky last night. How's how to see it again this week and how it got its name.

The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet, also named C/2023 A3, will reach its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion, on Friday, September 27, 2024, at a distance of 59 million kilometers.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is nearing Earth and getting brighter. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller last wrote about a comet — Pons-Brooks — in April. Look up, stargazers: A comet discovered last ...

Rosetta’s planned impact point in Ma’at shown in context with Philae’s first and final touchdown sites. All three sites are on the smaller of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko’s two lobes.