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 ...

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 ...

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

In the days following its perihelion, people around the world snapped some stunning pictures of the comet and its spectacular tail. While not visible from the Northern Hemisphere, people in the ...

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 ...

It has long been assumed that the gases of a comet tail are pushed away from the comet by the pressure of light from the sun. It now appears that many tails are caused by a wind of charged particles ...

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

Finally, just last month in 2024 — and just in time for the new year— we doubled the population of known dark comets and found that they come in two different flavors. Most excitingly ...

Battams Karl Battams, LASCO's principal investigator at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., processed some of the images to bring out fine details in the comet's tail and create the ...