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 ...

Comet ATLAS brightens as it nears the Sun, providing scientists with valuable data on solar wind interactions and offering a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as imaged on June 1, 2024 by Gianluca Masi at The Virtual Telescope ... [+] Project. Although there are no guarantees, a comet is expected to brighten significantly ...