Photographer Arturo Campos Cedillo captured this timelapse image of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from Tlajomulco de Zuñiga on Tusday, October 15 Jalisco with the Primavera Forest in the foreground.
Discovered in January 2023 by astronomers at China’s Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) Observatory and the following month by South Africa’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere around our solar system that’s home to millions of comets. It enters the inner solar system to orbit the sun once every 80,000 years.