Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is growing brighter and easier to find in the evening sky. These diagrams show its rough location in the sky for several October dates. Experts say it should be at its best in mid-October, after which it will quickly fade. The comet passed closest to Earth on October 9 after surviving a close brush with the Sun. It is headed into the deep freeze of the outer solar system, and isn’t expected to return to our neighborhood for tens of thousands of years. [Tim Jones/StarDate magazine]