Daily Astronomy Image: Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)
A new visitor from the outer solar system C/2025 R2 (SWAN) comet (also known as SWAN25B), was discovered late last week, on September 11. Just one day after its discovery, this comet reached its perihelion, the point in its orbit closest to the Sun. The comet was initially detected by Vladimir Bezugly in images captured … Read more