Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Comet Ison, which was thought to have vaporized, seems to be alive and kicking. According to NASA on Nov. 29 (KST), the comet was spotted within the sun's orbit. Experts had thought the comet ...

Less than a week later, images taken with small telescopes are beginning to show Nishimura with a tail on display ... of the sun and the solar wind. Comet ISON famously disappointed humanity ...

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It’s no accident that holidays featuring lights are celebrated in December. This month Venus and Jupiter – and possibly one comet – crank up the wattage for us.

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit." Astronauts witnessed the brightest ... It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and dust particles created when the comet gets close ...

The “comet ... plane of orbit around the Sun, the cooled dust and ions get reilluminated by sunlight. This could appear to ...

According to CBS News, the comet "C/2023 A3" has an 80,000-year orbit around our solar system ... You might expect it to look like it has a tail but Saturday, its tail is essentially pointing ...

The spectacularly tailed Atlas comet (C/2024 G3) has come close to the Sun. The Atlas comet made another cosmic show as it entered inside Mercury's orbit ... The white tail among the various ...