No tricks, but skywatchers may be in for an October treat when a newly discovered comet passes through our skies. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — or SWAN25B for short — looks to be heading our way.

The comet — named after the science instrument aboard the SOHO space observatory, which observes the sun — was first spotted on Sept. 11 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly, while studying images captured by SWAN.

"This is a milestone, the 20th official SWAN comet so far," Bezugly told Universe Today .

Bezugly made the discovery one day before the comet reached its closest point to the sun, which is known as perihelion.

"It was an easy comet for detection due to sufficient brightness in the (ultraviolet) band and location in the SWAN images, exactly in its center," Bezugly told U

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