While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

An exceptionally long period comet due to its highly elongated orbit, C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) likely comes from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of comets around the solar system. It reached perihelion — its ...

Assuming you’re referring specifically to the orbital period — in other words, how long ... orbit and the mass of the central body being orbited (in this case, the Sun). So, if some of a comet ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is currently just past its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, on its long, 160,000 year orbit around our star. At its closest, the comet was over three times closer ...

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit." Astronauts witnessed the brightest ... captures the comet as it blazes through space. It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and ...

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 ...

According to the Planetary Society, some experts thought Comet G3 ATLAS would "break apart" when it got close to the Sun amid its orbit (also known as "perihelion"), but stances have changed based ...

This beautiful photo shows comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS ... when it was 600 million kilometres away. Its orbit around the sun takes 160,000 years, so we have a long wait before it returns.

Most comets have elliptical orbits that bring them close to the Sun and then far out into the solar system. Some have long-period orbits taking thousands of years, while others are short-period ...

“It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit,” he wrote on X. “Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.” Other astronomers and space weather forecasters also shared images of the ...

The team at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System assumed the comet wouldn't survive its orbit past the sun. But the comet took astronomers by surprise as later sightings of it ...