All that's left is a cloud of dust," Zhang said. Even though Comet ATLAS was only discovered over a year ago, its short life wasn’t in vain. Astronomers study Sun-grazing comets because they are ...

Amateur and professional astronomers alike have been delighted by the spectacular display provided by Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) during mid and late January. After it made its closest pass to the sun ...

Photographer Josh Durry captured a rare image of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which orbits the sun ... to find the horizon was still covered in cloud. I then headed for the M4 to find a clearing ...

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 ...

However, these initial calculations also suggested that G3 ATLAS was a new comet coming directly from out of the Oort cloud, a vast bubble composed of countless billions of icy objects encircling ...

It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the past few nights it has been putting on a show for Australian star-gazers. But it can't go on forever — especially because astronomers now think ...

A comet believed to be in its death throes could briefly be seen over Tasmania this week as it hurtled through the cosmos in a magnificent flash of searing light. The C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) comet ...

This process is what makes comets such a spectacular sight. Astronomers believe Comet ATLAS originated in the Oort Cloud. This distant region is 50 times farther from the Sun. If the comet ...

This is a view of the comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) observed in Río Hurtado, Chile. After passing near the Taeyang in mid-January, the head of the comet gradually became fainter, and by the end of ...