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                                  2025 January 24   
      
                      Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope   
          Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas   
                                Observatory, TWAN)   
      
      Explanation: Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS has made a dramatic appearance in   
      planet Earth's skies. A visitor from the distant Oort Cloud, the comet   
      reached its perihelion on January 13. On January 19, the bright comet   
      was captured here from ESO Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in   
      Chile. Sporting spectacular sweeping dust tails, this comet ATLAS is   
      setting in the southern hemisphere twilight and was clearly visible to   
      the unaided eye. In the foreground is the closed shell of one of the   
      observatory's famous auxiliary telescopes. Still wowing southern   
      hemisphere observers, the comet's bright coma has become diffuse, its   
      icy nucleus apparently disintegrating following its close approach to   
      the Sun.   
      
                         Growing Gallery: Comet ATLAS (G3)   
                           Tomorrow's picture: stardust   
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