A year ago, the D.C. region was enthralled with Comet A3 adorning our skies .

We now have another comet, C/2025 A6 Lemmon , that’s possibly becoming bright enough to be visible to the naked eye in the coming days. It has been a fine view in a telescope and/or binoculars since its discovery in January, with the last few weeks getting even better.

Comets are leftover debris from the formation of our solar system and they are constantly on the prowl in the solar system at any given time.

As explained by NASA:

“Each comet has a frozen part, called a nucleus, often a few miles across. The nucleus contains icy chunks, frozen gases with bits of embedded dust. A comet warms up as it nears the Sun and develops an atmosphere, or coma. The Sun’s heat causes the comet’s ices to change to gas

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