WACO, Texas (KWTX) - If you happened to step outside this weekend and look up into the night sky, you might have caught a glimpse of a rare comet slowly making its way across the earth’s sky.
The photogenic comet is currently speeding away from Earth but is still visible in the Northern Hemisphere night sky for another week or so. It's grown fairly dim, but can still be seen easily ...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is appearing higher up in the western sky each night, and remaining in the sky for longer, but since it's getting farther from Earth and the sun each night, it's getting ...
With a New Moon on Friday, the night skies this week are perfect for spotting the comet against a black sky. As luck would have it, the comet is close to the famous “Summer Triangle” asterism ...
However, while it was somewhat hard to find in the bluish twilight, the comet is now shining against a black sky for a few hours after sunset. As a bonus, it’s relatively easy to find below the ...
The comet is past its visibility peak, as it has already reached its closest point to Earth - about 44 million miles away from our planet - but you will still be able to see it in the night sky ...
(KTXL) — Look up into the sky this month and you might see a rare comet that won’t return for tens of thousands of years. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known as C/2023 A3 to scientists and pronounced ...
If you want to see what people are calling "the comet of the century," your last chance is coming up soon, as it will most likely not be visible with the naked eye anymore after this weekend.
Sky-gazers won’t want to miss the event since it may be the last time the comet will be seen in the night sky for another 80,000 years. The comet successfully reached perihelion, its closest ...
Then, after swinging around the Sun, the comet may reappear in the western night sky right around Halloween ... numerous as the number of stars in our galaxy. How did they get there?
The waxing gibbous moon will be 97 percent-illuminated, making the night sky less than dark. This evening, the comet will due west, 30 degrees from the sun and will set about an hour and 20 ...