Sotiris Savvides

That night, I found myself sitting on a lonely bench, the world around me dissolving into the stillness of the night. I was waiting for something ancient, something magnificent to break the silence. The stars above twinkled faintly, but they paled in comparison to what I had come to see. The comet Atlas, after traveling across the vastness of space for millennia, was about to reveal itself. Leaning back, I watched as a faint streak of light slowly rose above the horizon. There it was Comet Atlas, its luminous tail stretching across the sky like a bridge between worlds.

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) (or Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS or simply Comet A3) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023. The comet passed perihelion at a distance of 0.39 AU (58 million km; 36 million mi) on 27 September 2024, when it became visible to the naked eye.Tsuchinshan-Atlas peaked its brightest magnitude shortly after passing the Sun at 9 October, with a magnitude of −4.9 per reported observations at the Comet Observation Database (COBS).

A special dawn chasing the comet ☄️ C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a recently discovered comet expected to approach Earth and the Sun in 2024.

A group of people standing next to each other on a field

A man in a santa suit standing next to a dog

A small waterfall in the middle of a forest

The amazing Veil Nebula capture at Amiantos Astro park located in Cyprus.

A blue object in the middle of a black sky

The Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1360 light-years.

A very large galaxy in the middle of the night sky