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

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

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a post on social media platform X, the UAE's Astronomy Centre shared a breathtaking image of the 'Comet Atlas' (C/2024 G3), captured by the Al-Khatim Astronomical Observatory in Abu Dhabi.

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.

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...

(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 ...