Another Bright Comet Is Heading to Earth
The comet NEOWISE seen over Nevada in 2020.Image: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)An incoming comet recently spotted by telescopes in China and South Africa could be as bright as a planet in the night sky next year, according to astronomers who studied the object.The comet—an accumulation of rock, dust, and ice—is called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). It was discovered by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China in Januaryand subsequently by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on February…