{"id":9970,"date":"2025-10-21T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9970\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:45:11","slug":"comet-lemmon-to-make-closest-approach-to-earth-on-tuesday-night-how-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9970\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet Lemmon to make closest approach to earth on Tuesday night: How to see it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8DD20FDB140B243AF36B506D3CB7011F.jpg\" alt=\"Comet Lemmon to make closest approach to earth on Tuesday \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/video\/1727371\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comet Lemmon to make closest approach to earth on Tuesday <\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">Stargazers in Philadelphia and beyond will be treated to a rare celestial sight Tuesday as Comet Lemmon makes its closest approach to earth. The comet will pass 45-to-50 million miles away, but will still be visible with the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Stargazers in Philadelphia and beyond will be treated to a rare celestial sight on Tuesday when Comet Lemmon makes its closest approach to earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Comet Lemmon will whiz past Earth at an estimated 45 to 50 million miles away, or about half the distance to the sun, according to astronomers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Experts at Villanova say the best time to see Comet Lemmon will be between 6:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. \u2013 between a half-hour and an hour after sunset.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The &#8220;cosmic snowball&#8221; will be so bright that you won&#8217;t even have to be somewhere very dark to see it, but away from the city will provide the best view.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Astronomers say it might look like a &#8220;celestial smudge&#8221; to the naked eye, and should photograph well with a phone camera.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Keeping an eye out for Comet Lemmon could be difficult due to a batch of incoming clouds and rain overnight Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Forecasters expect clouds to roll in around 7 p.m. before two rounds of scattered showers soak parts of the Philadelphia-area overnight.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air &amp; Space<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comet Lemmon to make closest approach to earth on Tuesday Stargazers in Philadelphia and beyond will be treated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8152,139,539,69,71,70,8039,593],"class_list":["post-9970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-air-space","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-science","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}