NASA’s SOHO Solar Observatory has spotted the ultra-bright tail of a comet in the sun's glare destined to be a naked-eye object in the next few days. Captured by the LASCO instrument on NASA's ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.