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The night sky goes from blue to pink as you look from top to bottom. In the middle is a comet; it looks like a relatively bright yellow dot with a long, diffuse yellow tail. Some stars are visible in the blue portion of the sky.

NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor

The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. The comet is making its first appearance in documented human history; it was last seen in the night sky 80,000 years ago. The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet made its first close pass by Earth in mid-October and will remain visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere just between the star Arcturus and planet Venus through early November.

Image Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon

TakenOctober 13, 2024

Image CreditNASA/Eric Bordelon

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