Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...

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

The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

The comet broke into 21 fragments, which continued to orbit around Jupiter. It was discovered the following year by Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker, and David Levy and was the first comet ever ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

the heat causes the ice in its nucleus to transition directly from a solid state to gas (known as sublimation), which can weaken the structural integrity of the comet, causing it to fragment.

Near-earth space may be littered with numerous dead fully devolatilized (or degassed) comet fragments which may be exceedingly difficult to detect, the authors note. We need to find more dark ...

Comet ATLAS S1 is also a Kreutz sungrazer ... However, said Zhang, the most probable outcome is that it fragments, with “virtually nothing” being visible in November. Observers in the Southern ...