A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European ...

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 ...

“I think it’s the prettiest comet I’ve ever seen in the LASCO images—and I’ve seen about 5,200 of them!” said astrophysicist Karl Battams of the Naval Research Laboratory. Battams is ...

When a comet gets close to the sun ... Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Survey has the biggest camera ever built. It will scan the entire southern hemisphere sky almost every night.

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is ... which would mean that this will be the last chance to ever see the G3 Atlas comet. “The sudden jump in brightness ...

That's about 40% closer than the planet Mercury. The sun might burn the comet up, making us the first, last, and only humans to ever see it. But if the ball of space ice survives its fiery flyby ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the "Great Comet of 2025" due ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European ...