Comet C2024-G3 Atlas is the protagonist of the astronomical events of these days, since it has managed to survive its passage near the sun which was on January 13, about 13 and a half million kilometers from the sun, that is very close, It is currently visible in the sky in the morning, both in the northern and southern hemisphere, the problem is that it is very close to the sun so there is little time, there is a small margin to be able to see it, the Comet is quite bright.
The photo was taken from space, which has a certain advantage, it was taken by Don Petit, a NASA astronaut. Although the Comet is faintly visible to the naked eye, it is best to have at least some binoculars and if you have a telescope, even better to be able to see it. see it in more detail, there is time to see it until approximately January 18 depending on the power of the telescope you have, you will be able to see it on January 20 or 21, because then it will move away and move away a lot of us.
In fact, it will not return for 160,000 years, the last time it happened was in prehistory, it will be about 2 and 4 km, which is the typical size of this type of Comet, the composition must be analyzed by the brightness of the Comet. To know what it is normally composed of, they are composed of dust gases and some rocks and ice, plural ice because it is not only water ice, there are also frozen gases that form comets.
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