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C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a non-periodic comet, which will reach perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU from the Sun.It could become the brightest comet of 2025, [4] possibly exceeding apparent magnitude of −3.5.
The comet is officially named for the astronomers credited with its first two sightings: Jean-Louis Pons in 1812 and William Robert Brooks in 1883, according to The Sky Live, which provides ...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is expected to come within approximately 44 million miles of Earth on Saturday. Comet visible with naked eye in sky this weekend comes around only every 80,000 years Skip ...
A bright comet has made a rare appearance in the sky, and skywatchers will have several opportunities to see it before it retreats into the icy depths of space. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as ...
John Bortle created a predictive model to calculate if a comet would survive perihelion or not, known as the Bortle survival limit. Accoording to it, if the comet is brighter than H10 = 7.0 + 6q, where H10 is the absolute magnitude of the comet and q the perihelion distance in astronomical units, it was likely to survive. [5]
On 6 February, C/2022 E3 (ZTF) visually passed near comet C/2022 U2 (ATLAS). [33] On 10 to 11 February, the comet passed 1.5 degrees from Mars and, on 13 to 15 February, passed in front of the Hyades star cluster. [19] Positions of the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the starry sky between 14 January and 16 February 2023
Photos of the green "city-sized" comet have appeared on social media over the past week thanks to some incredible photographers, including Aleix Roig, who shared this telescopic photo from March 12.
17P/Holmes is a periodic comet in the Solar System, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892. In only 42 hours in October 2007, the comet brightened from a magnitude of about 17 to about 2.8. This represents a change of brightness by a factor of about a half million times, and is the largest known outburst ...