12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... from the sun’s surface. However, it’s not expected back for hundreds of thousands ...

As a comet approaches the sun, it begins to heat up. The ice on and near the surface "sublimes", causing jets of gas and dust to erupt from the nucleus's surface. This shrouds the nucleus in a ...

"The central white tails are likely made of dust and just reflecting back sunlight ... it becomes a gas which erupts from the comet's surface in huge jets which become a glowing tail.

The ISS photo, which was shared on Jan. 11, captures the comet as it blazes through space. It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and dust particles created when the comet gets close ...

not impact it—but that’s only if the comet manages to survive a near pass of the Sun on Monday, January 13. Comets are conglomerations of dust and ice that emit ethereal tails as they near the ...

On January 15, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and interstellar dust. Two weeks earlier, Stardust visited the ...

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The photos also showed a bright streak of light, or "streamer," in the comet's tail, which is a sign that large amounts of gas and dust are leaking out of the comet, potentially via new cracks in ...

In a race against time, clouds and the setting sun, photographer Josh Dury captured this dramatic photograph of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) at dusk on Jan. 15. The comet is a rare visitor to our ...

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shares a photo of Comet ATLAS that he took from a window of the International Space Station. Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock ...