Comet Nishimura Grows

Comet Nishimura is rising. More precisely, the tails C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) are rising because it nears the Solar. Stumbled on completely final month, the comet is already advance bare peep brightness because it now strikes interior the Earth’s orbit. The comet will more than likely be nearest the Earth subsequent week, but nearest the Solar the week after — on September 17. Hypothesis holds that expelled ice and dirt from Comet Nishimura’s final talk over with to the inner Solar Machine can also possess created the Sigma Hydrids meteor shower which peaks yearly in December. If that is the case, then this meteor shower might perchance maybe perchance become more full of life, refreshed with fresh comet particles. Pictured, Comet Nishimura used to be captured from Edgewood, New Mexico, USA four nights ago, exhibiting a lengthy ion tail structured by interactions with the Solar’s wind. Understand for this comet advance your eastern horizon expedient before daybreak for the following few mornings, but very advance your western horizon expedient after sunset subsequent week — as its coma continues to brighten and its tails continue to grow. Gallery: Chosen Comet Nishimura photos submitted to APOD