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

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) got so close to the sun that it "photobombed" it in the eyes of NASA's ... [+] sun-watching SOHO Observatory. Having unexpectedly survived the intense heat and ...

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 ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

It has already put on an incredible show as the third brightest comet ever observed by NASA's space-based solar observatory SOHO, and has even been imaged by keen astrophotographers in broad daylight.

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 ...

A newly observed interstellar comet is the most pristine visitor from ... by Ukrainian astrophysicist Gennady Borisov at the MARGO Observatory in Crimea and is only the second interstellar object ...

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A celestial body recently discovered by a Chinese observatory has been confirmed as a comet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Astronomers at the Purple ...

(Another option is checking out the comet online, through the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which may be an altogether better sighting.) A cosmic clump of frozen dust and ice, Comet C/2024 G3 ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the ...