The brightest comet of the year was spotted skimming just past the sun by a satellite orbiting our star. The comment, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on ...
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as seen from the International Space Station on Jan. 11, 2025. (Image credit: Don Petit/NASA) Rendezvous with the sun The comet reached perihelion on Jan. 13 at around 1000 ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Comet C/2023 A3 - Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is seen in the sky above the artwork Dodekalitten at Lolland ... [+] southern Zealand ...
If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.
A comet that just skirted past our sun should light up the night sky this week. The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was only discovered in April 2024, and reached its closest point to our sun ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A family looks in awe as the Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, the ... [+] brightest comet of the ...