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.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...
Skywatchers witnessed the remarkable appearance of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) on January 13, 2025. With a brightness comparable ...
This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...
The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...
The four bright planets — Venus, Saturn ... While the tail is unlikely to be visible without binoculars or a telescope, the comet itself should be visible to the naked eye, and look like ...
Watch as its tail begins to expand — a ... brighten to a magnitude of -4 (as bright as Venus) or even magnitude -7 (visible during daytime)." Comet G3 ATLAS may even be visible to the naked ...