The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the sun and eight planets as ...

An ancient comet is gracing our night skies this month. Catch it now because it won’t be back for another 80,000 years. Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS ... from the Oort cloud, an invisible cosmic ...

The Oort Cloud comet — also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — will be lighting up the sky starting Oct. 9 Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Outer space is giving stargazers a rare, celestial treat - an icy comet that will take 80,000 years to return – if it ...

Article continues after gallery. Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is believed to have come out of what astronomers call the Oort Cloud, which lies far beyond Pluto. NASA describes the Oort Cloud as giant ...

of our star. You can read more of Wray's write up on the Oort Cloud and Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS online here.

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is also a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud — a sphere of comets around our solar system — that returns to the inner solar system only once every 80,000 ...

An icy comet that will take 80,000 years to return – if it survives the trip – is streaking across the sky this October.