In today's image, we see both Comet Nishimura and the planet Venus in the morning sky just before sunrise. Comet Nishimura will make its closest approach to Earth tomorrow and then closest to our Sun in about a week before heading back to the outer solar system where it will remain until in next ventures in to the inner solar system about 400 years from now.

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