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You Need to See This Bright New Comet Shine in the Night Sky This Month Before It Disappears for 1,000 Years

An image of the comet C/2025 A6, or Lemmon. Credit: Victor Sabet/Julien De Winter/NASA APOD

By Matt Novak

This year is a boom time for comets. Not only did we have the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS gracing our skies (and Mars’) earlier this year, but now we have another brand new comet to look out for.

Expected to be at its brightest on October 21, this month you might have the chance to spot the comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) blazing across the night sky—no telescope or binoculars required.

Lemmon was first discovered in January this year by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona. As amateur astronomers may be aware, several comets will pass the detection range of binoculars or telescopes in any given year. But it’s rare that a comet will shine bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye. October 21 also happens to be a date of the new moon, meaning the sky will be otherwise dark and primed for the comet to zip by.

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“This comet is developing very nicely and it is already an impressive object, well-placed for observation in the morning sky,” Nick James of the British Astronomical Association told Spaceweather.com. “It is definitely worth getting up for!”

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