Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) photographed by Samit Saha of Bidada, Gujarat, India on Jan. 17, 2025. "Even after capturing several frames, I couldn't spot the comet on my camera's LCD screen.

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.

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.

From Jan. 11 through 14, Comet G3 ATLAS can be followed as it passes through the field of the LASCO C3 camera located onboard the SOHO spacecraft. Dates and times are in Universal Time (UT).

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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 ATLAS (C/2024) G3 could be set to wow sky-watchers at the beginning of 2025. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 is only viewable just above the horizon during the early morning hours until Jan. 13 as it approaches the sun. If it survives its close encounter, ...

The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was only discovered in April 2024, and reached its closest point to our sun yesterday at a distance of about 8.3 million miles.

In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is due to reach perihelion — its closest to the sun — on Jan. 13, 2025. That day, this icy visitor to the inner solar ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) photographed by Samit Saha of Bidada, Gujarat, India on Jan. 17, 2025. "Even after capturing several frames, I couldn't spot the comet on my camera's LCD screen.