A newly discovered comet is rapidly brightening and could become visible from Earth — if it survives an extreme close encounter with the sun on April 4.
The newly discovered object dubbed the Great Comet of 2026 may become visible to the naked eye during its close solar pass in April.
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An interstellar comet can glow in X-rays even while remaining hundreds of millions of kilometers away. That is what makes 3I/ATLAS unusually valuable to astronomers. The object, only the third known ...