At https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/astronomers-may-have-already-spotted-the-great-comet-of-2026-and-it-could-soon-be-visible-to-the-naked-eye/ … Comet C/2025 R3 is scheduled to make its journey around the Sun in late April 2026. It is expected to be visible to the naked eye observer. After preihelion it passes Earth at a distance of 44 million miles.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-01-interstellar-comet-secrets.html … Comet 3I/ATLAS is still producing research articles. This one is based on information from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory [SOHO]. It seems that nine days after perihelion instruments onboard SOHO detected the glow of hydrogen from particles released from its nucleus. They were able, from this, to estimatee how much water was involved. There is a similar story at https://phys.org/news/2026-01-spherex-imaging-reveals-sublimation-3iatlas.html … which involves the SPHEREx observatory. It also describes what was seen following perihelion.
Meanwhile, at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/black-hole-jet-4-billion-light-years-away/ … is all about a jet of energy emerging from what is thought to be a black hole in a distant galaxy. Astronomers claim they have spotted an interaction between shock waves and pressure waves within the jet, and laud the viewing potential of the new Event Horizon Telescope
At https://phys.org/news/2026-01-jupiter-hidden-depths-simulation-planet.html … astronomers have been observing gigantic storms swirling across the top of the atmosphere of Jupiter for years. Actually being able to look deeper into the atmosphere has been problematical. It is so thick astronomers can’t see beyond a rift of clouds that appear to hold water – but of a very dense nature. Hence, scientists have developed a simulation of what might lie beneath those clouds. One question – how much oxygen is there in Jupiter’s atmosphere? The simulation suggests it must be a lot of oxygen.