Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS has made a dramatic appearance in planet Earth’s skies. A visitor from the a long way-off Oort Cloud, the comet reached its perihelion on January 13. On January 19, the colorful comet used to be captured here from ESO Paranal Observatory within the Atacama barren region in Chile. Carrying spectacular sweeping dust tails, this comet ATLAS is setting within the southern hemisphere twilight and used to be clearly viewed to the unaided appreciate. In the foreground is the closed shell of some of the observatory’s famed auxiliary telescopes. Quiet wowing southern hemisphere observers, the comet’s colorful coma has change into diffuse, its wintry nucleus it looks disintegrating following its close attain to the Solar. Rising Gallery: Comet ATLAS (G3)