|
APOD: 2025 February 5 Á Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
| << Yesterday | 5.02.2025 | Tomorrow >> |
Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Muöoz
Explanation:
Where is Comet ATLAS going?
In the
featured time-lapse video, the comet is not itself moving very much,
but the
Earth's rotation makes it appear to be setting
over a hill.
The
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sequence was captured
with an ordinary camera on January 22 from the
Araucanöa Region in central
Chile.
Comet ATLAS has been an impressive site in the evening skies of
Earth's
Southern Hemisphere over the past few weeks,
so bright and awe-inspiring that it may eventually become known as the
Great Comet of 2025.
Unfortunately,
Comet G3 ATLAS is
not going anywhere anymore because its central
nucleus broke up during its close pass to the
Sun last month.
Some of the comet's
scattered remains of
rocks and ice will continue to
orbit the Sun, some in nearly the same
outward section of the orbit that the
comet's nucleus would have taken.
|
January February March |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: comet
Publications with words: comet
See also:
- APOD: 2025 February 2 Á Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates
- APOD: 2025 January 28 Á Comet G3 ATLAS over Uruguay
- APOD: 2025 January 26 Á The Many Tails of Comet G3 ATLAS
- Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope
- APOD: 2025 January 21 Á Comet ATLAS over Brasilia
- APOD: 2025 January 20 Á Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun
- APOD: 2025 January 13 Á Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise