A rare brightening comet seen passing Earth from Hawaii.

A telescope in Hawaii captured a rare comet as it passed near Earth. The footage was captured on October 2 by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Subaru-Asahi Star Camera on the summit of Maunakea.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered in January 2023 after the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China spotted it. It was later independently detected by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS).
Scientists estimate that the last time Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visited our solar system was 80,000 years ago.