The Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) also captured data. These images show large parts of the comet’s ion tail taken while the spacecraft itself was inside the tail.

The comet, known as C/2024 G3 or ATLAS, could be the brightest of 2025, but it’s too early to tell, said Bill Cooke, lead of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Meteoroid ...

LISBON, May 19 (Reuters) - A bright comet fragment lit up the skies over parts of Spain and Portugal late on Saturday, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), with one Lisbon resident saying ...

Comet 12P is an exciting comet to learn more about, he says. It’s particularly prone to outbursts of gas and dust, which can make it appear bright in the sky.

According to Cooke, the comet has passed perihelion, or an orbit’s closest point to the sun. Because it has passed this point, those in the U.S. have a very low chance of seeing the comet.

As for the “devil comet” nickname, experts at Astronomy.com say it’s related to a rare event in July 2023, when the “ comet underwent an outburst, blowing off a bunch of gas and dust and ...

This comet hails from the Oort Cloud, which is outside our solar system, past Neptune’s orbit. To put that in perspective, it takes Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 80,000 years to orbit the sun.

The comet in question is C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in South Africa on Feb. 22, 2023.

The comet, known as C/2024 G3 or ATLAS, could be the brightest of 2025, but it’s too early to tell, said Bill Cooke, lead of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Meteoroid ...