Amateur and professional astronomers alike have been delighted by the spectacular display provided by Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) during mid and late January. After it made its closest pass to the sun ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the "Great Comet of 2025" due to ...

Comet visits to the inner solar system continue in 2025. An icy space rock from the Oort cloud will come extremely close to the Sun in the second week of January, and if it manages to survive the trip ...

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to reach naked eye visibility in 2025: Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. This comet ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun—on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Will there be a bright naked-eye comet to begin 2025? It’s ...

Learn more about Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which may be visible from the Southern Hemisphere in mid- to late-January. There aren’t many comets that are visible to observers without binoculars or ...

Comet G3 is on its first voyage into the inner solar system, meaning it’s packed with volatile materials that have never been exposed to the Sun’s warmth before. This makes its behavior somewhat ...

Skygazers across the globe are in anticipation of a rare and possibly spectacular astronomical spectacle as Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is set to shine brightest in January 2025. It has a good chance of ...

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around 180,000 years and ...

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