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Comet Atlas

17 March 2020
Electromagnetism

At https://spaceweather.com (16th March 2020) … Comet Atlas is brightening – see image below. It is currently as bright as an 8th or 9th magnitude star (still too dim to with the naked eye but with a telescope pointed in the direction of Ursa Major you might be able to pick it up). However, the comet is hundreds of times brighter than astronomers predicted a few months ago – and it is still beyond the orbit of Mars (and a long way from the Sun, which is quiet in any case).

                                                                                      

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