Bengaluru residents, and nearly the whole of Indian media, was elated after splendid shades of pink, green yellow and more were visible in the evening sky. To be sure, the site was fit to behold. The beautiful hues were sure to mesmerise anyone, perhaps enough to eagerly connect them with a comet.

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), is currently visible to the naked eye from the surface of the Earth. Astronomy enthusiasts can spot the comet in early hours of the day before the Sun brightens the sky. The comet was discovered just last year and experts have said that it comes close to Earth once every 80,000 years.

Currently, the comet is more than 106,910,000 kilometres away from the Earth.

The outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere stretches up to just around 10,000 kilometres from the Earth's surface.

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