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Update (October 28. 2024) Comet ATLAS has indeed not survived perihelion. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured its demise. SOHO uses a disc called a coronagraph to cover the face of the Sun in order to image fainter objects, such as Comet ATLAS, which is imaged fading and disappearing at its closest approach to […]
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A headless comet might be visible from our planet in the lead-up to the spookiest night of the year. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), is currently approaching the sun, and is due to pass closest to our star on October 28. As it gets closer and closer to the sun, the comet is […]
The coma glows green from diatomic carbon (C2) emission, while the blue ion and white dust tails nearly overlap on October 19th. Image details: ASA Astrograph 12-inch, f/3.6 and ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro camera Gerald Rhemann Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has been wonderful. I’ve rarely seen so much interest in a comet, with first-time skywatchers getting such […]
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. James Wray is a Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as […]
The dazzling spectacle, which occurs when Earth passes through debris left behind from the rare comet, is expected to peak between midnight and dawn. October has brought the northern lights, a Hunter’s supermoon, and now a meteor shower? Why, yes, that’s exactly right. Source link
Have you seen comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS yet? If you’ve not been able to glimpse the bright, icy space rock that’s traveled from the edge of the solar system, it’s not too late. But you need to see it soon. The coma and long tail of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), is currently shining at […]
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was a beautiful naked-eye and binocular sight at dusk on October 13th from near McGregor, Minnesota, about 90 minutes after sundown. The tail extended 7° in binoculars and 5° with the naked eye — even in bright moonlight! A faint segment of the antitail glows pink below and right of the […]
Named after the Chinese observatory and South African programme that detected it in 2023, the ‘comet of the century’ may have formed at a distance of up to 400,000 times that between Earth and the Sun. Its coma, or head, measures about 130,000 miles (209,000km) in diameter, with a tail extending 18m miles (29m km). […]