Experts think the comet started breaking up last week, but it's still putting on a show for star gazers for a few more days.
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 you ...
It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the past few nights ... "The red, blue, and green tails are likely ion tails with their colours dominated by light emitted by specific gases that ...
A green comet will appear in the night sky this week, for the first time in 50,000 years. Skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere using telescopes and binoculars should look low on the northeastern ...
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 ...
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 ...
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a sungrazer comet, and the encounter made it bright – so ...
A super rare comet could appear in the night sky later this week. It's thought that Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) could be seen across the globe for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa says it's hard ...
And Southern Hemisphere observers have a ringside seat. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has just experienced a very close encounter with the sun, and will become visible low in the western sky after ...