Only discovered in 2023, Comet C/2023A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is visible through the naked eye right now. It won't return for another 80,000 years.

Have you seen comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS yet? If you haven't yet seen the bright, icy space rock that's traveled from the edge of the solar system, it's not too late. But you need to see it soon.

Scientists found the Tsuchinshan–ATLAS comet in 2023. Now, it’s here and visible in our sky, even from Chicago. The comet won’t be visible for much longer, so now’s your chance to catch this once in a lifetime sky event. Reset learns more about the celestial object and gets tips on the best way to see it.

A rare celestial event is lighting up the night sky this month as Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas makes its closest approach to Earth for the first time in roughly 80,000 years.

The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet was created more than 4 billion years ago when the planets reshuffled and changed the gravitational field in our solar system, according to Rutkowski.

The best comet of the year is starting to fade in brightness, but it’s still an easy naked-eye object in the evening sky.

Photographers have immortalized Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and you can, too. But you'd better be quick – it won't be around for much longer

The comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is visible about an hour and a half after sunset, but it’s getting dimmer every day. And it only comes around every 80,000 years.