Comet 2024 July 4. A comet recently discovered zooming through our solar system has the potential to be quite bright when it arrives late in 2024, but comets have let us down before. In the first of those significant outbursts, on july 20, 2023, the comet brightened by a factor of a hundred times, shedding an estimated ten million metric tons.
Tap the magnifier iconat the lower part of the screen; Green and blue lines are shown perpendicular to the ecliptic.