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Return to article list Currently visible just before sunrise, the comet of the year will soon be visible after sunset and will remain trackable until late October. Credit: Gianni Tumino Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLASAlso known by its catalog designation C/2023 A3, it now has a magnitude of 2.2 in the morning sky. But if you're not an
A stream of superheated plasma gushes from the Sun in this 2014 image captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA On September 1, 1859, the most intense geomagnetic storm in history visited Earth. This colossal solar explosion, which caused telegraph systems to catch fire and auroras to light up the skies
An artist's impression shows the newly discovered half-Earth-mass exoplanet Barnard b, with its red dwarf sun in the background. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser As far as lone stars go, there is nothing as distinctive as Barnard's star. After the Alpha Centauri system, it is our closest neighbor, a red dwarf one-fifth the size of the Sun
Return to article list These photos from around the world are some of the best we've seen of Comet C/2023 A3 so far. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) displays prominent trails of ions and dust in this photograph taken on the morning of September 30 from Tivoli Farm in Namibia. Credit: Gerald Rhemann Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has
Return to article list The “Ring of Fire” eclipse of October 2, 2024 was a spectacular celestial event, and Dave Eicher saw it from an equally spectacular setting. The annular eclipse experience was recorded here from Easter Island on October 2, 2024. Credit: Celine Chaya Your editor is in the middle of a week-long trip
Three wonders | Astronomy Magazine FAKE product three wonders https://www.astronomy.com/imagen-del-día/photo/tres-maravillas/ Three wonders | Astronomy Magazine Wael Omar, taken from Giza, Egypt Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) and a crescent Moon rise over the three main pyramids of Giza in this composite scene. Each layer consists of twenty-five 0.8-second subframes taken with a Sony astromodified mirrorless camera
High purple mountain | Astronomy Magazine FAKE product riding high https://www.astronomy.com/imagen-del-día/photo/riding-high/ High purple mountain | Astronomy Magazine Abhijit Patil, taken from Lick Observatory, California Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appears over the crest of the Diablo Range as seen on September 28. The photographer captured the comet with a 10-second tracked exposure at ISO 100 with an astromodified
globular cluster NGC 6355. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen. License: CC BY 4.0. Discover the celestial wonder of NGC 6355, a stunning globular cluster located in the vastness of space. While its name may not be as familiar as other cosmic wonders, NGC 6355 has an appeal that rivals even the most
In another 3.75 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy (left) will loom large in Earth's skies, as shown in this illustration. By then, the massive galaxy's gravity will have begun to distort the plane of our Milky Way, at right. Credit: NASA; THAT; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger
Back to list of articles Although it's still difficult to see, the best comet of 2024 is getting closer to the Sun and getting brighter. Here's how to see it. We can only hope that at some point, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will look this good to the naked eye. However, this image was obtained by capturing
