Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) Description: Discovered on August 12, 2023 by Hideo Nishimura, a Japanese amateur astronomer, the third comet which now bears his name was briefly observable from the Earth’s northern hemisphere before passing closest to the Sun on...
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) Description: C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is the first comet discovered in 2021. It is estimated that its orbital period was over 80,000 years and, when it arrived in the vicinity of the planet Neptune in 2009, its orbit was affected and after its...
Comet NEOWISE Description: The comet that stole the show in 2020! C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered on March 27, 2020 by the NEOWISE space telescope. It passed perihelion on July 3, 2020 at 43 million km from the Sun. This move, close to the Sun, dramatically...
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner Description: Comet Giacobini-Zinner was discovered in December 1900. It has a nucleus about 2 km in diameter and takes 6.6 years to complete its orbit around the Sun. Each time it passes near the Sun, it leaves some debris of ice and rock....
La comète Lovejoy – décembre 2013 Description: Comet C / 2013 R1 (Lovejoy) was discovered in September 2013 by Terry Lovejoy. It comes from the Oort cloud which is a reservoir of comets on the outskirts of the solar system and has an orbital period of more than...
