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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2025 January 13   
        A morning sky is shown about a line of trees. In the sky is a faint   
       comet. The comet is shown in better detailed in an inset image on the   
       upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                            Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise   
      Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava   
      
      Explanation: Comet ATLAS is really bright now, but also really close to   
      the Sun. Outside the glow of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) would be   
      one of the more remarkable comet sights of recent years, reflecting   
      about as much sunlight to Earth as Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS did in   
      October, and now rivaling even planet Venus. But the giant snowball is   
      now so close to the Sun that it can only be seen through the light of   
      the early morning dawn or the early evening dusk. Today, Comet ATLAS is   
      at perihelion -- its closest ever to the Sun. Although the future   
      brightness of comets is notoriously hard to predict, there is hope that   
      Comet ATLAS will survive its close pass near the Sun and remain bright   
      enough to be seen with the unaided eye over the next few days -- and   
      possibly a good camera comet for weeks. The featured image was taken   
      early yesterday morning near Torna-'a, Slovakia.   
      
         Tomorrow: Zoom APOD Lecture hosted by the Amateur Astronomers of   
                              Association of New York   
                           Tomorrow's picture: do north   
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