The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

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 newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet Venus. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the ...

A comet that just skirted past our sun should light up the night sky this week. The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was ... system towards the distant Oort cloud. As seen from our planet today ...

by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (Atlas)—a network of telescopes that scans space for asteroids that could potentially hit Earth. The comet comes from the Oort Cloud ...

However, these initial calculations also suggested that G3 ATLAS was a new comet coming directly from out of the Oort cloud, a vast bubble composed of countless billions of icy objects encircling ...

27, 2024, by astronomers at the the ATLAS survey, Hawaii, comet ATLAS S1 is a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere around our solar system that’s home to millions of comets.

Emerging from the Oort Cloud in the solar system, the G3 comet was first discovered on 5 April last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Nasa astronaut Dom Pettit ...

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

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating ... He noticed that the comet's coma — the cloud around its nucleus — had dimmed significantly during this time ...