Source: New York Post
New York City stargazers could be less than a week away from getting a glimpse of a comet blazing its way through the cosmos as Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS passes just 89 million miles from Earth. The roughly 1-mile diameter “sun grazer” comet — named for its (relative) close proximity to our solar system’s only star — is expected to pick up a generous dose of radiation from the sun as it passes, which will give it a brilliant bright glow and a lengthy tail. A so-called “sun grazer” comet could shoot across NYC’s night sky early next month.
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