<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2zHfeO_0wCUduaQ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2zHfeO_0wCUduaQ00" width="2048" height="1630" ><figcaption>An astrophotographer has captured the incredible scene of a comet streaking over Stonehenge. (Josh Dury via SWNS)</figcaption></figure>An astrophotographer has captured the incredible scene of a comet streaking over Stonehenge.Josh Dury, 26, caught Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) as it traveled on Thursday, Oct. 17 evening.He says it was captured at 21:47 pm using an image stack of X15 13-second exposures, stacked to increase signal-to-noise ratio in light of the full moon.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2rW1Ro_0wCUduaQ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2rW1Ro_0wCUduaQ00" width="855" height="1280" ><figcaption>An astrophotographer has captured the incredible scene of a comet streaking over Stonehenge. (Josh Dury via SWNS)</figcaption></figure>C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023.Dubbed the "comet of the century," it only returns to the inner solar system once every 80,000 years.</div></body>

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Astrophotographer captures comet streaking over Stonehenge

An astrophotographer has captured the incredible scene of a comet streaking over Stonehenge. Josh Dury, 26, caught Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) as it traveled on Thursday, Oct. 17 evening. He says it was captured at 21:47 pm using an image stack of X15 13-second exposures, stacked to increase signal-to-noise...