Comet 12P/Pons-Brookspassed perihelion on April 21 and has become a southern-hemisphere object. It is fading.This well-documented comet, perhaps observed as early as the year 245, experienced a large unexpected outburst in late July 2023, catapulting from a magnitude of 16.6 to 11.6 in a sin...
On April 8, 2024, Comet SOHO-5008 was spotted and photographed during a solar eclipse before its rapid disintegration. Credit: Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), Josef Kujal (Astronomy Society in Hradec Králové), Milan Hlaváč A surprise appearance of a new comet made the ...