Although the comet may become as bright as Comet Neowise, which was a striking sight during the pandemic in 2020, scientists say it is unlikely to exceed that brightness.
I think it'll be a nice comet - and it looks as though it's holding up for that - but it's unlikely to be as easy to see as NEOWISE was in 2020 or Hale-Bopp in the late 1990s, which many of us ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) over the Badlands and formations of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, ... [+] Canada, on the night of ...
The brightness and tail trailing mean the comet has been likened to previously observed comets such as the Hale-Bopp comet of the 1990s and the NEOWISE comet of 2020. Khadijah Ahmad, operations ...
Bartlett said it was easy to snap a photo with his iPhone from his dark-sky vantage point in the Sierras, even with the moon full and bright. Comet A3 seems to be living up to Comet Neowise's dazzling ...
In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.