G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

a straight one called the ion tail. Often, star-grazing comets such as C/2024 G3 do not survive the encounter with the Sun, though astronomers believe that this one did so in the past. This comet's ...

In this photo, it also seems that the comet's ion tail is also visible alongside its prominent dust tail. In addition to ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

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

In the days following its perihelion, people around the world snapped some stunning pictures of the comet and its spectacular tail. While not visible from the Northern Hemisphere, people in the ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

I asked Scherb about Hale-Bopp's transparent blue tail, which gave the comet the appearance of a celestial bird-of-paradise flower. "That's the ion tail," he explained. "As water sublimates off ...

Astrophoto of periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky. Green nucleus and tail of ion, dust ... [+] and vapor illuminated by the sun in front of star field in space. Have you seen comet 12P ...

Battams Karl Battams, LASCO's principal investigator at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., processed some of the images to bring out fine details in the comet's tail and create the ...