‘Prettiest Comet I’ve Ever Seen’: Watch A Comet Graze The Sun
G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.
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Comet that could shine as bright as Venus set to be visible from Earth
A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth over the next few days. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was spotted in April last ...
NASA Just Captured Stunning Images of a Comet’s Fiery Tail
G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...
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Why Comet G3 (ATLAS) will be 'remembered as the Great Comet of 2025' (photos)
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...
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Comet Suddenly Appears After 180,000 Years — How To See It Tonight
On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...
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Will Comet G3 be visible over Arizona in January? What to know
Is there an app to find Comet G3? Yes. You can use free apps like SkyGuide to find Comet C/2023 A3. Haynes suggests using SkySafari, which requires a subscription. Will Comet G3 survive its close ...
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How to Watch a Once-in-160,000-Year Comet Predicted to Shine Brighter Than Venus
Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to whiz past the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to spot the space spectacle from Earth Skyler Caruso is a Writer and ...
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NASA astronaut snaps photo of 'totally amazing' comet from space station
Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts a visit. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," he said on X ...
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How to See the Brightest Comet of 2025
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 ...
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Why Comet G3 (ATLAS) will be 'remembered as the Great Comet of 2025' (photos)
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 ...
Bright Comet's Tail Dazzles in 'Bleeding' Images from NASA Spacecraft
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
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Will Comet G3 ATLAS perform at perihelion?
This comet reaches perihelion at 0.094 Astronomical Units (AU, 8.7 million miles or 14 million kilometers, interior to the orbit of Mercury) from the sun on January 13th, and "may" top -1st ...