by APOD Robot » Tue Oct 15, 2024 4:05 am
Animation: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Tails Prediction
Explanation: How bright and strange will the tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS become?
The comet has brightened dramatically over the few weeks as it passed its closest to
the Sun and, just three days ago, passed its closest to the Earth.
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) became of the
brightest comets of the past century over the past few days, but was unfortunately hard to see because it was so nearly superposed on the Sun. As
the comet appears to move away from the Sun, it is becoming a
remarkable sight -- but may soon begin to fade. The
featured animated video shows how the comet's tails have developed, as viewed from Earth, and gives one prediction about how they might further develop. As shown in the video, heavier parts of the
dust tail that trails the comet have begun to appear to point in
nearly the opposite direction from lighter parts of the dust tail as well as the comet's
ion tail, the blue tail that is pushed directly out from the Sun by the
solar wind.
[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241015.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_241015.jpg[/img] [size=150]Animation: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Tails Prediction[/size][/url]
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