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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that's home to countless space objects

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The Oort Cloud is a gigantic reservoir that may hold billions of icy celestial bodies.

Two of those bodies will pass by Earth in the days leading up to Halloween .

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS , also known as Comet C/2023 A3 , will be at its brightest, and likely visible to the naked eye.

New Oort Cloud comets are discovered all the time, a dozen or so per year in recent years .

Odds of any of them colliding with Earth are extremely low, but it is possible.

European Space Agency is preparing a mission to do just that: Comet Interceptor.

Unlike the comet in the DiCaprio movie, these two will not crash into the Earth .

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