As you look for Comet C/2023 A3, you’ll notice a fuzzy, glowing ball slowly moving across the sky. From our position, it will drift from right to left in the west-southwest sky.

A comet that has been on an 81,000-year journey to fly by Earth is finally arriving -- and should be visible in our skies in the upcoming days. The space rock — named Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan ...

Comet A3 will get closest to Earth on Oct. 12, when it will pass about 44 million miles (71 million km) from Earth. However, it will also be closest to the sun — just 14 degrees — in the ...

How to see comet A3. Depending on your location and the amount of light pollution nearby, it may be worth heading somewhere dark enough to view C/2023 A3 unfettered by the glow of a bustling city.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, or Comet A3, is a dusty ball of ice from the Oort Cloud that takes about 80,000 years to orbit the sun. That means some of the last people to see it were Neanderthals .

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) above ESO Headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. (Image credit: ESO/J. C. Muñoz-Mateos) Eric Bordelon caught this photo of the comet above Louisiana ...

Comet Tsuchinchan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was first discovered at the Purple Mountain Observatory's XuYi Station in China on Jan. 9, 2023, then lost and discovered a second time 44 days later at the ...

Comet A3 will cover a small portion of the sky, but it can still be seen for an hour or more each night as it moves toward the horizon. While it’s visible, it will gradually make its way across ...

On Oct. 17, comet A3 will be about 6 degrees — roughly half a fist — above the horizon. On Oct. 20, the comet will be about 12 degrees above the horizon, or just above your fist.

Comet A3 will cover a small portion of the sky, but it can still be seen for an hour or more each night as it moves toward the horizon. While it’s visible, ...

Comet A3 will cover a small portion of the sky, but it can still be seen for an hour or more each night as it moves toward the horizon. While it’s visible, ...

As you look for Comet C/2023 A3, you’ll notice a fuzzy, glowing ball slowly moving across the sky. From our position, it will drift from right to left in the west-southwest sky.