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Isabelle

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Creative, musically obsessed, happily married designer. French is my mother tongue. 🇨🇦 #EastCoastKin & #G+Circle enthusiast

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Isabelle@designisabelle.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I learned that if you go on NASA’s astronomy picture of the day page, you can search for a photo by date. I can’t stop looking at this photo of the sky the night my mom passed. ❤️ Photo credit Brian Fulda

The tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS were a sight to behold. Pictured, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was captured near peak impressiveness last week over the Eastern Sierra Mountains in California, USA. The comet not only showed a bright tail, but a distinct anti-tail pointing in nearly the opposite direction. The globular star cluster M5 can be seen on the right, far in the distance. As it approached, it was unclear if this crumbling iceberg would disintegrate completely as it warmed in the bright sunlight. In reality, the comet survived to become brighter than any star in the night (magnitude -4.9), but unfortunately was then so nearly in front of the Sun that it was hard for many casual observers to locate. Whether Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas becomes known as the Great Comet of 2024 now depends, in part, on how impressive incoming comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) becomes over the next two weeks.