This photo of the comet C/2023A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, was captured by 11-year-old Alex Addison at 7:36 p.m. on Monday night over D.C. Rogers Lake. The comet was visible with the naked eye thanks to the sun’s glare in a rare occurrence that happens once every 80,000 years. NASA calculates the comet is approximately two miles wide, with a tail spanning 18 million miles. It is roughly 44 million miles from Earth. It should be visible for the rest of the month, but binoculars will become needed. The comet gets its name from those who discovered it first. It was observed last year by the Tsuchinshan, or “Purple Mountain,” Observatory in China and the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South Africa.