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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 February 5   
      
                    Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill   
                      Video Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Mu+#oz   
      
      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 Araucan+¡a 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.   
      
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