Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 falls apart

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.
Perfect weather has opened up Adelaide’s skies for an event of a lifetime that won’t happen again for about 160,000 years.
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...
Stargazers can glimpse a sight 160,000 years in the making in the night skies across Australia this week as a rare comet passes by. The G3 Atlas comet has returned to southern hemisphere skies ...