Double comet… oh, my god, double comet, all the way across the sky!
If you’re ready to have your mind blown contemplating the vastness of the universe, mark your calendar for October 20 and the few nights following.
One comet would be cool enough to see, but in the second half of this month, it could be possible to see two of them.
Comets Swan and Lemmon will be visible at roughly the same time, and people are already getting excited for potentially glimpsing them both in the same night.
Just to spoil us a bit more, it will also happen at the same time as the Orionids meteor shower, which is when debris from Halley’s Comet causes a shower of shooting stars.
What are these double comets?
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was discovered in January, using a telescope from Mount Lemmon in Arizona. At t