Hot on the heels of a spectacular comet late last year, another celestial visitor is set to put on a show. And Southern Hemisphere observers have a ringside seat.

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit," Petit wrote on X. FILE - Comet ...

as it reached a magnitude of -3.4 during its perihelion—brighter than the 0.4 magnitude C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) last year. In astronomy, magnitude is a measure of the brightness of an ...

Craig Dearing captured C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) over some old farm equipment south of Columbus late last year.

In the second week of 2025, we could see a new object grace the skies as comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 gets close to the sun. In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is ...

It could shine as bright as Venus, or similar to Tsuchinshan-ATLAS/ Comet C/2023 A3, the "comet of the century" that stunned stargazers in mid-October. The last time Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas ...

including Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which blazed through the sky last October. Like all comets, C/2024 G3 is a frozen chunk of material left over from the formation of the solar system that has begun to ...

It could shine as bright as Venus, or similar to Tsuchinshan-ATLAS / Comet C/2023 A3, the "comet of the century" that stunned stargazers in mid-October. The comet was first spotted by the Asteroid ...