Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 nucleus ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Some people have seen Comet A3 with an anti-tail in front, much like the one seen in this 2023 image of Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF). © Kết Nối Việt Nam via Flickr Don ...

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 ...

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 ...