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New 'sungrazing' comet could become visible to the naked eye during the day — if the sun doesn't destroy it
The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...
NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked intrigue in the scientific community after NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft detected ...
A newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 is heading for a perilous close encounter with the Sun in April. If it survives, it could become bright enough to shine in daylight, offering a rare ...
The object is known as C/2026 A1 (MAPS), discovered extremely recently on January 20 by a group of French amateur astronomers ...
The findings, detailed in papers posted on arXiv, mark a rare scientific achievement for an object that formed around a star ...
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) fragmented after its October 2025 solar approach, with telescope observations documenting multiple ...
Over the past 2,000 years, a series of spectacular comets have graced our skies. Without fanfare, they appear seemingly from ...
The breakup was caused by the extreme conditions near the Sun; during its latest approach, C/2025 K1 flew as close as 0.334 ...
Evidence from medieval chronicles suggests that the periodic nature of Halley’s Comet was recognized centuries earlier than previously believed.
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