NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this video of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS just above the horizon as the Northern Lights danced above Earth. The stunning video was taken from the International Space Station about 200 miles above Earth.

A once-in-80,000-year image will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend before heading into the vast abyss of space.

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest approach to the sun in September and will come within 70 million kilometers of Earth.

Due to its proximity, the celestial body will appear in the western sky after sunset every evening until about the middle to end of the month.

MONFRAGUE NATIONAL PARK, SPAIN – 09/30/2024: Comet C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanATLAS), also known as “the comet of the century”, is seen crossing the sky during sunrise in Monfrague National Park. (Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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“Comet C/2023 A3 poses no threat to Earth,” Peter Veres, a research scientist at the Minor Planet Center, previously told FOX Weather. “We know the comet’s orbit well. The orbit is improving and more and more astrometric observations are coming to our center – the MPC.”

The celestial body was only recently discovered in 2023, when observers from China’s Tsuchinshan Observatory conducted routine observations.

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View of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from the International Space Station.

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station also observed the Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet on its journey around the sun.

The space station captured a photo of the comet on September 19, showing its dusty tail in the vast darkness of space.

Astronomers say that the closer a comet gets to the sun, the longer its tail will grow.

Comets are simply the leftovers from the formation of the solar system, which took place about 4.5 billion years ago, and are made up of a mixture of ice, dust, rock and gases.

TOPSHOT – Comet C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas is seen over the hills near the village of Aguas Blancas, Lavalleja department, Uruguay at sunrise on September 28, 2024.

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‘Some comets do not survive a close encounter with the sun. If they get too close, radiation and gravitational forces can completely disintegrate them. Tsuchinshan-ATLAS did not suffer this fate, but another comet that astronomers were monitoring, C/2024 S1 ATLAS, could. have,” according to NASA.

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The celestial object will likely be visible until the next Full Moon cycle approaches, which is the Full Hunter’s Moon on October 17.

Based on orbit calculations, astronomers believe that once the comet leaves Earth’s view, it could take another 80,000 years before it becomes visible again if it survives its journey around the solar system.

MADRID, SPAIN – 28/09/2024: Comet C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanATLAS), also called “the comet of the century”, crosses the sky above the skyscrapers of Madrid, known as the Four Towers Business Area.

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Missing the Tsuchinshan-Atlas Comet doesn’t leave many celestial events in the calendar year, with three Full Moons and a close bypass with Jupiter, all of which will occur before the winter solstice.

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) Telescope shoots towards the heart of our solar system.

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