Ian Griffin
This beautiful streak of light is comet C/2024 E1 hurtling through the southern constellation Grus. It was first spotted in 2024 and is thought to have originated from the Oort cloud, a region of icy rocks at the edge of the solar system, far beyond Pluto. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on 17 February – when it will still be almost 150 million kilometres away
