Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to vanish from view. Earth and this interstellar interloper will be on opposite sides of the Sun for a little while. The glare of our star will be blocking the object from view in the coming days, until the two celestial bodies appear too close in the sky for the dim comet to be visible. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The comet is currently several degrees away from the Sun, setting about an hour after our Sun, making it the "best" time to see it. But you need to have a very good instrument, because the comet is really dim; it's a smallish speck currently around the orbit of Mars. Soon, the apparent distance between comet 3I/ATLAS and the Sun will become smaller and smaller, culmi

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