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Overnight News Digest April 10th 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-04-10

There's a new comet in the sky, and it's already visible through binoculars

One of the great things about astronomy is that it's full of surprises, especially when it comes to comets — you just can't predict when a new one might pop up. But when one does appear, it gets both amateur and professional astronomers very excited.

And that's why there's a lot of buzz around a recently discovered comet that is now visible through binoculars, if you know where to look.

The comet is so new that it doesn't yet have an official designation, which is provided by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC). For now it goes by the name SWAN25F. It's named in part after the SWAN (Solar Wind Anisotropies) camera on board NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. It should get an official name soon.

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