内容摘要：A police officer stands guard on a bridge near City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

A police officer stands guard on a bridge near City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Shiite worshippers pray at the Sayyida Zeinab shrine where many Shiite Muslims believe Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad is entombed, in Sayyida Zeinab, south of Damascus, Syria, Saturday March 15, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)After Assad’s ouster, al-Khatib joined other Syrian Shiite community members to protect the shrine from the inside. The new security forces guard it from the outside.

“We don’t want any sedition among Muslims,” he said. “This is the most important message, especially in this period that Syria is going through.”Zeinab is a daughter of the first Shiite imam, Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad; she’s especially revered among Shiites as a symbol of steadfastness, patience and courage.She has several titles, such as the “mother of misfortunes” for enduring tragedies, including the 7th-century killing of her brother, Hussein. His death exacerbated the schism between Islam’s two main sects, Sunni and Shiite, and is

Zeinab’s burial place is disputed; some Muslims believe it’s elsewhere. The Syria shrine has drawn pilgrims, including from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. Since Assad’s ouster, however, fewer foreign visitors have come, an economic blow to those catering to them in the area.Shiite clergy speak at the Sayyida Zeinab Shrine, where many Shiite Muslims believe Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad, is entombed, in Sayyida Zeinab, south of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Shiite clergy speak at the Sayyida Zeinab Shrine, where many Shiite Muslims believe Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad, is entombed, in Sayyida Zeinab, south of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

, the Sayyida Zeinab area has suffered“We’ll soon be left with just a dusty rubble pile,” astrophysicist Karl Battams with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory said in an email.

Comets are balls of frozen gas and dust from billions of years ago. Every so often, a comet passes through the inner solar system.“These are relics from when the solar system first formed,” said Jason Ybarra, director of the West Virginia University Planetarium and Observatory.

The newest comet was discovered by amateur astronomers, who spied it in photos taken by a camera on a spacecraft operated by NASA and the European Space Agency to study the sun.The comet won’t swing close to Earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year. Other notable flybys included