A new comet was discovered last month. Now, as we go through this month, the comet may become easier to view.

The new comet was discovered by a sky imaging instrument called SWAN. SWAN stands for Solar Wind Anisotropies camera. The SWAN camera is on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft.

The comet is named C/2025 R2 SWAN. Let’s break down the naming convention. C means it is a long-period comet, only returning to visible on Earth after a very long time. The 2025 is obvious. It was discovered this year. R is a comet naming code for the first half of September. The “2″ means it’s the second comet discovered in that period. Finally SWAN is the person or in this case, the instrument that discovered the comet.

We only get one period to see this comet, as NASA believes this

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