A telescope in Hawaii captured a uncommon comet because it handed near Earth. This footage was captured on the summit of Mauna Kea by the Nationwide Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Subaru-Asahi Star Digicam on October 2.
Comet Suchinshan-Atlas was found in January 2023 after it was noticed by the Suchinshan Observatory in China, which was later independently detected by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-Influence Final Alert System (Atlas).
Scientists estimate that the final time Comet Suchinshan-Atlas visited our photo voltaic system was 80,000 years in the past.
