This close approach classifies it as a "sungrazing" comet, a term used for comets that pass extremely close to the Sun. Such proximity often results in increased brightness due to the intense ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captures stunning vista of Jezero Crater on Mars As the comet disintegrated, it passed within 1% of the Earth's distance from the sun, less than 1 million miles from the star ...

Sungrazing comets are those that pass within about 850,000 miles of the sun. Many of them follow a similar orbit, called the Kreutz Path, according to NASA. Astronomers believe that these Kreutz Path ...

Astronomers are eagerly awaiting to learn the fate of comet C/2024 G3 Atlas as it approaches perihelion – the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, four times closer than Mercury – in the ...

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS captured from in International Space Station This is a long-period, sungrazing comet, which will not come back before 135,000 years (date depends on the way the comet will ...

Have you heard about comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS This is a long-period, sungrazing comet, which will reach perihelion (closest distance to the Sun) on 13 January 2025. For the clearest view, find a tall ...

Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts a visit. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," he said on X ...

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit." Astronauts witnessed the brightest comet of 2025 from space as it streaked across the sky above Earth. A new photo taken from the vantage point ...