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Comet C/2023 A3 seen from the Canary Islands on September 30th (Tochinzan-ATLAS)
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Earth is approaching the comet and possibly passing through its ion tail, but this is a rare event. If you're lucky, it may appear as a blue streak in the night sky in the northern hemisphere.
Samuel Grant at University College London, Geraint Jones, Researchers from the European Space Agency say tonight that Earth is likely to intersect the path of the ion tail of comet C/2023 A3 (Tuzhenshan-ATLAS) on October 10th. “This is a particularly unusual situation,” he says…
Source: www.newscientist.com
