NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – If you want to see a comet that only occurs once every 80,000 years in the Tennessee night sky, you don’t have much time left.

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas (Atlas A3 C/2023) will be visible for 45 minutes after sunset.

To see it, WSMV4 First Alert Meteorologist Stefano DiPietro suggests looking to the western part of the sky near Venus.

The comet will appear high and dimmer in the sky from now until October 21, after which it will no longer be visible. It hasn’t been to Earth for 80,000 years and won’t return for another 80,000 years.

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