The object that would become known as both the Great January Comet of 1910 and the Daylight Comet was first seen Jan. 12 in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s unclear who precisely discovered it, but some ...
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is believed to be much older than the whole Solar System. It traveled across the galaxy for at least 10 million years without passing another star, and probably a lot ...
In early September 1882, a comet was sighted from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The comet brightened over the following weeks, reaching a magnitude of -2 on the 15th; at perihelion two days ...