A picture taken on Sunday by Austrian photographer Michael Jäger appears to show the comet with not only its usual bright ...

Often said to be an optical illusion, the so-called "anti-tail" points toward the Sun, appearing in the opposite direction from the comet's real dust tail. However, it is a real phenomenon that ...

so its tail reflects sunlight more than most comet tails. It is known as "forward scattering" to astronomers because it scatters sunlight in the direction of Earth — and into your eyes — and ...

27-Oct. 3, comet A3 will be visible in the east-southeast direction before sunrise ... fuzzy blob with a tail pointing away from the sun. A comet is made from ice and dust. As it gets closer ...

ESA and NASA's SOHO spacecraft capture a video of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) glowing as it raced through space. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...