The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024. Full Story: <a href=" Credit: NASA's ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

A photo taken from the International Space Station captures the brilliant comet known as C/2024 G3 ATLAS, which could be the brightest of 2025.

This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...

The comet can also be viewed through your computer screen, courtesy of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Some comets ultimately disintegrate from the heat, but if Comet Atlas survives ...

sun-watching SOHO Observatory ... the remainder of its apparition.” This comet is best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, where it’s shining at +1.8 magnitude, high enough above the horizon ...

Rubin Observatory may shine a lot of light on dark ... skywatching events and more! When a comet gets close to the sun, the sunlight heats up the ice, causing it to sublimate, or transition ...

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be able to see it?

NASA and ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft snapped a video of the comet as it passed three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than ...

the comet will be very hard to see, experts say. “The smoke from the fires and our current weather patterns won’t help,” said Tim Brothers, Technical Instructor and Observatory Manager at ...

A Northern Arizona University Ph.D. student working at Lowell Observatory helped lead a study using meteor showers to predict the path of comets that take hundreds of years to travel through the ...