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Astronomers have just spotted a new comet, which might be as bright as Venus in our skies in the coming months. The comet has not been formally named but has been provisionally designated A11bP7I.

According to The Planetary Society, comet G3 could get as bright as magnitude -4.5, about the same brightness as Venus during January 2025. It will be in the constellation Sagittarius. However ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been hurtling back towards Earth in an elliptical orbit for the past 53 years.

(Mars and Venus received a similar fraction ... The cometary impact model included the physics of the dynamics of the comet's breakup and thermal ablation (melting) of the comet's surfaces.

Venus, one of the brightest objects in the night sky, shines at a magnitude of -4. Astronomers are excited because the comet is rapidly brightening as it hurtles towards the Sun. It is expected to ...