Comet PanSTARRS Slides Past Earth in a Real-Time Sky Show
TL;DR
A brightening Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will skim about 45 million miles past Earth, its closest approach on April 26, after surviving perihelion on April 19. The comet is visible in space-based imagery and can be tracked in near real time via the SOHO LASCO instrument and NOAA data feeds; it poses no threat and will fade as it moves away. Under dark southern skies it may be glimpsed with naked-eye, while binoculars reveal more detail as it traverses the solar-ward field.
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