Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. All celestial objects look better when viewed in a dark sky. For comet A3 — also called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

This can be in part, the optical illusion of the pink wavelengths lighting up the base of the cloud (due to the low angle of the sun's rays), and these pink clouds superimposed on a dark blue sky.