New comet SWAN25B already bright, but near sun

There’s a new, fairly bright comet in the sky, and it was just discovered on Friday, September 12, 2025. The Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument on the SOHO spacecraft detected it. And it’s relatively bright (as comets go), shining at around magnitude 7.4. That’s not bright enough to see with the eye. But it’s bright enough to detect using binoculars, or a camera with a 200-mm lens.