Stargazers are getting excited about the return of a comet to the night skies — one that should be visible to the naked eye. Officially named C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the comet A3 was first ...
The actual Great Comet of 1811 (which lasted into 1812) was visible for 260 days—the longest period for any comet until Hale–Bopp in 1997. In War and Peace, Pierre observes an “enormous and brilliant ...
The cult's defining moment came in 1997 when 39 members committed suicide in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, believing their souls would ascend to a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.