The comet was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986, Halley’s orbit period is on average, 76 Earth years. This corresponds to an ...

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

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as seen from Chile ... However, the intense heat and radiation appear to have caused thermal stress, leading to cracks in its nucleus and its subsequent fragmentation, ...

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." ...

However, the dangerous encounter with our star changed Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS, destroying its nucleus – the "head" of the comet. Photos from the Southern Hemisphere and even the International Space ...

At the heart of a comet, Dr Horner says, is a nucleus with something like a "dirty snowball" of ice, rock, and dust. And as it gets closer to the heat of the Sun, the ice heats up past the point ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the Sun about 180,000 years ago, expected to continue to be visible for ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the Sun about 180,000 years ago, is expected to continue to be visible for the ...

A photograph of the C/2024 G3 "Atlas" comet, captured in Uruguay. A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the Sun ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the ...

While the comet's tail is getting brighter and larger, the coma seems to have disappeared, suggesting something is afoot in the nucleus. Comets are simplistically made of three components ...

He noticed that the comet's coma — the cloud around its nucleus — had dimmed significantly during this time, hinting that the comet's head may have started breaking apart, according to ...