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Rare 1,200-year comet spotted and photographed over Oman
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Muscat – Oman Space and Astronomical Society (OSAS) has documented the Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) in skies over the sultanate, marking one of the most significant astronomical events of 2025.
He explained that Comet Lemmon is a long-period comet that completes an orbit roughly every 1,200 years.
When viewed through telescopes, the comet appears as a bright core with a greenish gas tail extending away from the Sun.
Astrophotographer Ali bin Rabia al Kindi, a member of OSAS, captured detailed images of the comet from the Al Hajar al Gharbi Starlight Reserve.
Kindi said observing a comet that visits the inner solar system only once in more than a millennium is a rare privilege.