A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years.

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A new comet, recently discovered by Hannes Gröller of the University of Arizona, an observer with the Catalina Sky Survey, and now known as C/2025 D1 (Gröller), is smashing records. Still way ...

And if the comet's remains survive, it's expected to be visible from Earth again in about 600,000 years, according to long-term orbital calculations by the JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System.