The comet reached perihelion, its closest point to the sun in its orbital path around the parent star, on Sept 27, and reached perigee, its closest approach to Earth (within nearly 71 million ...
A second very large naked eye comet, C/2024 S1 (Atlas), is incoming, scientists say, just a week before Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is set to shine after sunset.
In a worst case scenario, the comet would continue to break apart and fully disintegrate before reaching perihelion. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was just discovered on Sept. 27 by the ATLAS survey ...