There is a new comet in our night sky, yet so faint to be hidden from our view. Yet, there is so much attention shifting to it, we thought we'd at least report where it resides now. The comet is called 3I/ATLAS and worthy of your interest even if you can't see it or won't be able to see it.

For those who love to go out at night and look up at the stars, we can at least tell you that the comet is in the zodiacal constellation Libra, not far from Scorpius, one of our southernmost constellations in our night sky. The comet is too faint to see even if you have a fairly powerful amateur astronomer. It is being reported at 16 magnitude. Pluto is at magnitude 14. The prospect ahead is not good for it ever getting to visible brightness, even for those of us who have a telescope.

This winter, the comet will be too far away and behind the glare of the sun to be observed even by ground-based telescopes, or even the Hubble telescope. The comet is no threat to us, and won't even get anywhere near our Earth.

The darkest star you can see at night without a telescope is magnitude 6. This newly discovered comet will barely make it to magnitude 11 in brightness, according to the forecast reports we've read.

What makes this comet so remarkable is its discovery. The comet is entering our solar system for the first time and it will leave our solar system, heading out for a continuous far off distant tour of the universe.