The last months of 2024 and the first month of 2025 saw a flurry of bright comet activity. Unfortunately, the middle months of 2025 are expected to experience a bright comet drought with no comets expected to become brighter than 10th magnitude until late in the year. Currently, the best co...
The tau Hercluid meteor shower could provide an epic display in the late night sky at the close of May this year. If predictions come to fruition, the nights of May 30-31st may provide for a rare meteor outburst, or there may simply be nothing at all. The comet responsible for all ...
June 17, 2024 by Elliot Williams 50 Comments When I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. This same sun-and-a-handful-of-planets scheme repeated itself again and again throughout our galaxy, and ...
C/2021 G2 (Atlas)is past perihelion, which occurred in early September 2024. It reached maximum brightness of magnitude 14 in late August. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)was very impressive in October. Although fading, it remains a telescopic comet throughout the month. ...
The comet isn’t expected to be nearly as bright as Neowise in 2020, or Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s. But "it will be bright by virtue of its close Earth passage ... which allows scientists to do more experiments and the public to be able to see a beauti...
(on the inside) before heading out of the inner solar system again. It will not ever cross the orbit of Earth and can’t pose the least bit of danger via impact. The closet itwillcome to our planet on this orbit is about 1.5 AU in June 2024. That’s one and a half times the ...
(1.33 au on 2024 February 19) and closest approach to Earth (1.23 au on 2024 March 18). The comet’s orbit suggests that it is a dynamically old long-period comet. Like C/2021 T4 (Lemmon), we’ve got time to watch this one develop as we await perihelion. As November starts, the...
On Tuesday 11 March 2025, Cbbc broadcasts Gladiators: Epic Pranks!Comet! Season 1 Episode 13 Episode SummaryThe upcoming episode of “Gladiators: Epic Pranks,” titled “Comet!” promises a fun-filled adventure for fans. Set to air on Cbbc, this episode features Nitro and Diamond as they pu...
The closest the ringed-planet will get to Earth in 2024. September 18: Partial Lunar Eclipse/Supermoon Canva September 18: Partial Lunar Eclipse/Supermoon Unlike the penumbral lunar eclipse earlier in the year, the Earth will cast a tiny shadow on the first Supermoon of the year. It will ...
Zircon Market Outlook 2025 During 2024 the demand for zircon sand has been soft, mainly effected by the decline in the Chinese construction industry that accounts for 50% of the global zircon demand. The market has also seen the entry of 2 new Heavy Mine