Suddenly, amateur astronomers are seeing a naked-eye comet in the evening sky. It's Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the 'devil comet'. Waiting for next Monday's solar eclipse in Mexico, Petr Horálek photographed the comet last night and found it much brighter than the last time he saw it:
"I assume an outburst is in progress," says Horálek. "My estimate of the comet's magnitude is +3.5. Definitely worth taking a look in the next hours and days."
Indeed, now is a good time to look. After sunset, the comet emerges in the western sky not far from the planet Jupiter. Naked-eye observers will see a dim fuzzball. Cameras and small telescopes reveal the comet's magnificent tail.
We received 69 reports about a fireball seen over Berlin, Brandenburg, Drenthe, Flevoland, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Limburg, Niedersachsen, Noord-Holland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Overijssel, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, Utrecht, Vlaams Gewest, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland on Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 around 03:34 UT.
We received 17 reports about a fireball seen over Bay of Plenty, Manawatū-Whanganui, Marlborough, Taranaki, Waikato and Wellington on Friday, March 29th 2024 around 05:42 UT.
For this event, we received one video and one photo.
The Clima ao Vivo and Bramon cameras recorded a fireball during the early hours of this Tuesday (26), which streaked across the sky of 5 cities in the South region.
We received 31 reports about a fireball seen over Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Grand Est, Grigioni, Lombardia, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schwyz and Veneto on Saturday, March 23rd 2024 around 19:42 UT.
For this event, we received one video and one photo.
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Talk about a sight for sore eyes! Cameras caught a quick glimpse of a large meteor falling south of Galveston.
Video shared by Saltwater-Recon.com via Twitter shows two different angles of the greenish-blue fireball.
Interestingly, Meteorologist Anthony Yanez says meteors falling aren't as rare as we might think. In fact, just last week there were more than 150 reports of fireball activity across the U.S.
And while it might be too late to make a wish, or whatever it is folks do when they see a falling rock, we can still enjoy re-watching the footage and be in awe of the galaxy's wonders.
We received 54 reports about a fireball seen over Connecticut, CT, DE, MA, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, NH, NJ, NY, Ontario, PA, Pennsylvania, RI and VA on Tuesday, March 19th 2024 around 10:08 UT.
For this event, we received one video and one photo.