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Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

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

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