While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

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

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

When Chris Schur took his daytime photographs of the comet on January 12th and 13th, he reported that: "The nucleus of the comet is singular, stellar and not breaking up as far as I can see." But ...

This indicates that the nucleus of the comet might be in the process of crumbling into pieces. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the ...

The time has come for it to emerge to our evening skies. At the heart of the comet is a dirty snowball or "cometary nucleus" only a few hundred metres to a couple of kilometres across. When it was ...

A Sun-skirting snowball At the heart of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a dirty snowball or“cometary nucleus” only a few hundred metres to a couple of kilometres across. When it was discovered ...