How to see the rare ‘Sun-skirter’ comet entering Australian skies this week

A rare Sun-skirting comet will be visible from the southern hemisphere this week as it flies past Earth for the first time in around 100,000 years.

Astronomer Jonti Horner says the comet, also known as C/2024 G3 is,  is “putting on an absolute show” for NASA’s space-based solar observatories.