Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 falls apart
Rare Comet Flies Close To Sun In 'Near-Death Encounter'; It Will Return 1,60,000 Years Later
This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary brightness. It shone as brightly as Venus, making it visible to the naked eye first in the northern hemisphere until mid January then in the south afterwards.
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...
G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...
It got within 140 million km on 14 January, but as it heads off again into the void of space, the southern hemisphere is best placed to see it. Australian National University astrophysicist Dr Brad ...
Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...
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Dr Shyam Balaji, researcher in astroparticle physics and cosmology at King’s College London, told the BBC that “current ...
The last time Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) passed Earth, humans were beginning to spread across the world after leaving Africa. It was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
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