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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope
NASA ^ | 24 Jan, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)

Posted on 01/24/2025 2:47:16 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS has made a dramatic appearance in planet Earth's skies. A visitor from the distant Oort Cloud, the comet reached its perihelion on January 13. On January 19, the bright comet was captured here from ESO Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile. Sporting spectacular sweeping dust tails, this comet ATLAS is setting in the southern hemisphere twilight and was clearly visible to the unaided eye. In the foreground is the closed shell of one of the observatory's famous auxiliary telescopes. Still wowing southern hemisphere observers, the comet's bright coma has become diffuse, its icy nucleus apparently disintegrating following its close approach to the Sun.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 01/24/2025 2:47:16 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 01/24/2025 2:47:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 01/24/2025 2:48:27 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Wow.


4 posted on 01/24/2025 2:51:45 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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That’s quite a comet.


5 posted on 01/24/2025 2:53:12 PM PST by ComputerGuy
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I’m telling you, every single time I find myself becoming arrogant, one look at images like this will bitch-slap me back into humility. Thanks for posting it!


6 posted on 01/24/2025 3:59:49 PM PST by AFB-XYZ ( )
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Wow - I wish I could have seen that one.


7 posted on 01/24/2025 5:42:37 PM PST by Deaf and Discerning
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bttt


8 posted on 01/24/2025 6:53:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Quite a striking photograph.


9 posted on 01/24/2025 7:49:50 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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