The comet should be visible by telescope through September, before it gets too close to the sun, and reappear in December on the other side of the sun.

A comet has entered the Solar System from interstellar space and will pass through the inner planets later this year, NASA says.

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the sky-surveying Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a comet from another star system.