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Joe Rao

Could new comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) become visible to the naked eye in October? Here's what we know

A bright streak of light shoots by a bright blue star in the dark starry night.

A newly discovered comet will soon be gracing our evening sky.

On Sept. 10, Vladimir Bezugly of Dnipro, Ukraine was examining online images of a low-resolution public website showing images obtained during Sept. 5-9 with the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) camera on the Solar and Heliospheric Observer (SOHO) spacecraft. That's when he discovered a moving object, resembling a bright blob, close the sun. The blob turned out to be a comet. A bright comet.

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