This comet came to the attention of China's Suchinshan and South Africa's Atlas observatories last year. Comet C/2023A-3 Suchinshan is named Atlas. This comet takes 80,000 years to orbit the sun once in its elliptical path. This means it may have been seen earlier when people lived in caves. This information is known, according to the US space research agency NASA and Encyclopedia of Britannica.

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The picture was taken by Munim Hossain Rana, an expatriate physicist, from the Cooper Lake State Park area in the state of Texas, USA, after sunset on Saturday. He had a Nikon Z-7 camera with a 200mm lens. When the picture was taken, the comet was about 44 million miles from Earth.