Comet – British Astronomical Association

P/2026 T1 (ATLAS). A new short-period comet discovered in outburst

Most newly-discovered Solar System objects are faint but on 2026 October 12.82 the ATLAS survey detected a 14th magnitude object

On 2026 July 10 J-F Soulier reported a possible condensation in the tail of C/2023 R1 on comets-ml from images

After the recent disappointment with C/2026 A1 (MAPS) we have another interesting comet to get excited about. C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS)

See the latest update below. Predictions for this comet are starting to appear in the main-stream media so I thought

Unusually, there are two bright comets visible in the evening sky at the moment. One of them, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)

The Comet and Meteor sections held a highly successful meeting in Edinburgh on 2025 October 4. My thanks to the

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was discovered as an apparently asteroidal object on 2025 January 3.342 in images taken by David Fuls

<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage MISSION 29P has now completed some 11.3 year’s coverage in which we have tried

As I write this on January 14, the comet has survived perihelion and it has developed a spectacular tail which

The 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the pre-eminent space observatory of our times, and just 7 months into