The comet was discovered on September 27.
The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...
NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...
Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.
As a result, some older astronomical texts refer to it as the "Headless Wonder". Then, in December 2011, Comet Lovejoy, ...
However, the comet’s tail could survive and become a headless comet. Such comets are not unique, with Comet Lovejoy disintegrating before Christmas in 2011, Space.com wrote.
Comet C/2024 S1 (Atlas) was predicted to resemble C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), another Kreutz sungrazer that ... [+] shone as a "Christmas Comet" in December 2011. Image taken from the ISS. Only spotted ...
The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec. 2011, remains the only Kreutz Path comet to have survived its brush with the sun. Max Hauptman is a Trending Reporter for USA TODAY.