The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

The comet was discovered on September 27.

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab ... Comet’s distance from the sun: 57.8 million miles (93.1 million kilometers) Comet’s distance from Earth: 48 million miles (77.2 ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...

The comet was first observed by the Purple Mountain Observatory on Jan. 9 ... and assigns letters A through Y to identify each. Jan. 1-15 is "A" and Jan. 16-31 is "B," for example.

NASA’s SOHO Solar Observatory has spotted the ultra-bright tail of a comet in the sun's glare destined ... LASCO's field of view just as a strong X2.1 solar flare (extreme ultraviolet flashes ...

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