This year’s night sky has a worthy display in store with three comets are C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). Astronomers will be requiring a good telescope while one of them shall be rare for naked-eye viewings; hence, the title, Halloween comet. The strange comet 3I/Atlas has also stirred interests regarding its origin.

What is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)?

It was first discovered in May 2025, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is now about to get closest to the Sun is called perihelion, which is on October 8. If it survives this extreme solar violence there may be an amazing show depending on how it is placed in the sky. The comet would not rise above the horizon very late in November for most observers.

At about 40 million miles from Earth, it is therefore expected to remain too faintly

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