New York City stargazers could be less than a week away from getting a glimpse of a comet blazing its way through the cosmos as Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS passes just 89 million miles from Earth. The roughly 1-mile diameter “sun grazer” comet — named for its (relative) close proximity to our solar system’s only star — is expected to pick up a generous dose of radiation from the sun as it passes, which will give it a brilliant bright glow and a lengthy tail. The comet will appear high in the sky