The comet’s name comes from the two observatories that discovered it: the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (also known as the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory ...

It signals the beginning of Chinese Lunar New Year and also comes on the same weekend when Saturn and Venus can easily be seen in a rare conjunction and a so-called “green comet” is visible in ...

Haleakala in Hawai'i. Our featured comet is Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. The first of its two names, pronounced Choo-cheen-SHAHN, is a romanized version of the Chinese word for "purple mountain," and refers ...

Astronomers believe the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet has been hurtling headfirst through the void of space towards the centre of the Solar System for millions of years. Named for the Chinese ...