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 ...

China’s Tsuchinshan (or “Purple Mountain”) Observatory and an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South Africa documented it for the first time in history as ...

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid. Scientists a month later at the ...

Astronomers discovered it in January 2023 as an asteroidlike dot in images of the sky taken at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. It was very faint and in subsequent weeks wasn’t seen ...

It was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory east of Nanjing, China on Jan. 8, 2023, and independently found by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in South Africa ...

It gets its name from it being discovered at both China’s Purple Mountain Observatory (tsuchinshan means “purple mountain”) and South Africa’s Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is rapidly approaching its closest approach to the sun, which may be the closest it comes to our planet. The comet will reach its brightest at about 36.4 ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will have a close encounter with the sun today (Sept. 27) here's how to make the most of comet viewing opportunities this weekend and beyond. Excitement is building as ...

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid. Scientists a month later at the Asteroid ...

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid. Scientists a month later at the Asteroid ...