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Comet
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which likely traveled from the outer
reaches of our solar system, made its closest transit past the Sun on
Sept. 27 and was expected to come within approximately 44 million miles
of Earth on Oct. 12.
Crew
aboard the International Space Station have been observing
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on its journey through the inner solar system. An
astronaut captured this photo of the comet on Sept. 19. At that time,
the mass of dust, ice, and rock was approaching the closest point to the
Sun on its highly elliptical orbit.
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