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October's full Hunter's Moon, the largest supermoon of 2024, will rise in the sky opposite the bright comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). The moon officially became full today (Oct. 17 ...
Look up into the sky this month and you just might see a comet that won’t return for tens of thousands of years. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known as C/2023 A3 to scientists and pronounced ...
What you're seeing here is the Great Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a comet discovered in 2024 that lit up the night sky late in that year and early 2025, and was the brightest comet in 18 years when it ...
Vol. 130, No. 988, 2018 June ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey Sys... Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night and process the data in real time.