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

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 31.--Prof. Lewis Swift, Director of the Warner Observatory, has discovered that the Pons comet, which had a single tail in 1812, now has a double tail, the ... View Full Arti ...

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

Comets are simplistically made of three components: The nucleus, the coma, and the tail (although there can be two tails).

As of late-Sept., its tail is about 27 degrees in length, according to The Sky Live. Comet A3 — as with many comets — actually has two tails. Its plasma tail is made of ionized gas ...

However, Comet A3 — as with many comets — actually has two tails. Its blue-ish plasma tail is made of ionized gas, while its other, whitish tail is made of dust. A picture taken on May 25 ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

These tails form because comets have ice in ... Now that we've found more dark comets, we've noticed that they come in two flavors. Outer dark comets are larger—about a mile wide in size ...

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 comet ...

Comet ATLAS brightens as it nears the Sun, providing scientists with valuable data on solar wind interactions and offering a ...

Comets are simplistically made of three components: The nucleus, the coma, and the tail (although there can be two tails). Comets are mostly made of ice, so when they go near the Sun, their ...