Credit: Patrick Ditz, SAFGA & commission des comètes de la SAF The C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) comet was discovered in January 2023 in China by the Purple Mountain Observatory, and then again the ...

A Perseid meteor streaks behind the dome of Purple Mountain Observatory’s Xuyi Station, the first facility to detect Comet C/2023 A3. Credit: Hao Liu Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS owes its name to two ...

In early January 2023, astronomers at the Tsuchinshan Observatory in Nanjing, China, spotted a faint object in the night sky that had not been recorded before. Six weeks later, astronomers working ...

It is a comet discovered by observers at the Purple Mountain (translated to Tsuchinshan) Observatory in China in January 2023 and independently found by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...

The countdown begins for skygazers, as the much anticipated Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas will disappear from our night sky by early November, according to NASA. Discovered only in 2023, the comet ...

Similarly this comet is named for the Tsuchinshan Chinese Observatory and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System known as ATLAS, a group of telescopes in Hawaii, Chile and South Africa ...

Dozens of students gathered at Harvard’s Loomis-Michael Observatory on Thursday and Friday for a rare viewing of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a comet visible to the naked eye that researchers say is ...