{"id":5145,"date":"2024-10-13T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/comet-of-the-century-captured-in-photos-across-the-globe\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:00:28","slug":"comet-of-the-century-captured-in-photos-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/comet-of-the-century-captured-in-photos-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Comet of the century\u2019 captured in photos across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazers across the globe managed to capture the \u201ccomet of the century\u201d as it whizzed across the northern hemisphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comet A3<\/strong>, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, did not disappoint astronomers who were anticipating how bright and visible it might be as it came within approximately 44 million miles of Earth on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Snaps from across the UK, US and Asia showed the comet within the inner solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon roughly occurs every 80,000 years \u2013 meaning the comet would have last been visible from Earth when the Neanderthals were walking the planet.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the comet came from the Oort Cloud \u2013 a giant spherical shell that surrounds our solar system and contains billions of objects including comets \u2013 according to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The comet has been billed as the \u201ccomet of the century\u201d in some quarters, the RAS said.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered independently in January 2023 by two observatories \u2013 China\u2019s Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) Observatory and South Africa\u2019s ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) \u2013 and was named after them.<\/p>\n<p>The comet A3 was previously visible from Earth between 27 September and 2 October when it travelled across the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t worry if you missed it last night, it should still be visible until 30 October.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Robert Massey, deputy director of the RAS, said getting a photo of the comet may be possible, particularly if using a digital single-lens reflex camera.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a good mobile phone camera and a small telescope, he added, you can \u201chold the mobile phone against the eyepiece of the telescope and try to take a picture that way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Massey said that method \u201cworked well\u201d with comets like NEOWISE in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazers across the globe managed to capture the \u201ccomet of the century\u201d as it whizzed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}