NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) ...
Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a ...
A comet known as the "Halloween comet," or Comet C/2024 S1, broke apart on Monday (28th October, 2024) as it approached the sun. Researchers from the European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar and ...
Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.