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Brits will get their best opportunity to catch a glimpse of Comet Lemmon this week, set to be the last of 2023 - see when.

Brits will get their best opportunity to catch a glimpse of Comet Lemmon this week, set to be the last of 2023 - see when.

Brits will get their best opportunity to catch a glimpse of Comet Lemmon this week, set to be the last of 2023 - see when.

When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a family member who saw a comet before you were born, or you may have seen one yourself when comet Nishimura passed by Earth in September 2023. But what are these special celestial objects made of? Where do they come from, and why do they have such long tails? As a planetarium director, I spend most of my time getting people excited about and interested in space. Nothing piques people’s int...

"Mom, there's an asteroid or something in the sky," my 12-year-old son, Danny, says from the breakfast table, where he's nibbling toast before he catches...

El cometa Nishimura and a pending partial solar eclipse

News In September, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid, safely returned its precious cargo to Earth.

The event took place right after Comet Nishimura successfully lived through its closest approach to the Sun amid fears that it might burn up.

After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away. The rare event was captured by a NASA spacecraft.

After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away.