Discovered on Apr. 5, 2024, by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) network of telescopes, C/2024 G3 comes from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of comets around the solar system.

A deep-sky portrait captured in different wavelengths between Ha, OIII and RGB light, features a large reddish cloud of glowing ... faint Comet C/2023 E1 Atlas, shinning with a dimmer 14.7 magnitude.

Photographer Josh Durry captured a rare image of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which orbits the sun ... to find the horizon was still covered in cloud. I then headed for the M4 to find a clearing ...

In a race against time, clouds and the setting sun, photographer Josh Dury captured this dramatic photograph of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS ... was still covered in cloud," Dury explained.

G3 has mesmerized astronomers and amateur skygazers for months as the world tried to spot the bright comet in the sky nearing its fatal encounter with the Sun.

Comet C/2024 G3 was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope system on April 5, 2024, and is thought to have come from the distant Oort Cloud surrounding ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet ... Cloud. For context in this 160,000-year-long orbit, Neptune, the planet furthest away from the sun, takes 165 years to do a solar lap. Pluto takes 248 years. G3 ...

All that's left is a cloud of dust," Zhang said. Even though Comet ATLAS was only discovered over a year ago, its short life wasn’t in vain. Astronomers study Sun-grazing comets because they are ...