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Current Comet over Chile: *Actually* Visible to Unaided eyes in the Southern Hemisphere
... On January 19, the bright comet was captured here from ESO Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile. Sporting spectacular sweeping dust tails, this comet ATLAS is setting in the southern hemisphere twilight and was clearly visible to the unaided eye...
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250124.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250124.html
The nucleus was pretty much pulled apart on recent approach to the sun and now, to many, seems to be a 'headless' comet