Astronomy Pictue=re of the Day - The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-08 00:12:33 | Updated at 2024-10-08 02:55:41 2 hours ago

Astronomy Pictue=re of the Day - The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
NASA ^ | 7 Oct, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jose Santivañez Mueras

Posted on 10/07/2024 5:10:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: A bright comet is moving into the evening skies. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has brightened and even though it is now easily visible to the unaided eye, it is so near to the Sun that it is still difficult to see. Pictured, Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS was captured just before sunrise from an Andes Mountain in Peru. Braving cold weather, this unusually high perch gave the astrophotographer such a low eastern horizon that the comet was obvious in the pre-dawn sky. Visible in the featured image is not only an impressively long dust tail extending over many degrees, but an impressively long and blue ion tail, too. This month, as the comet moves out from the Sun and passes the Earth, evening observers should be able to see the huge dirty ice ball toward the west just after sunset.

TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 10/07/2024 5:10:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber

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2 posted on 10/07/2024 5:10:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

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3 posted on 10/07/2024 5:11:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

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