Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) Taken by Mike Olason on January 15, 2025 @ Tucson, Arizona
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 01/15/2025 UPDATE
SUNSET COMET ALERT: Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) survived its close encounter with the sun on Monday. Now it is emerging into the sunset sky. Mike Olason watched it follow the sun into the western horizon last night from Tucson, Arizona:
ATLAS Comet, Taken by Erik on January 14, 2025 @ Alberone di Cento, Italy
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 01/15/2025
SUNSET COMET ALERT: We know three things about Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3). It survived Monday’s close encounter with the sun. It brightened to magnitude -2.5. And it is now a photo-op in the sunset sky. “I was truly surprised to see it,” says Erik Norlund of Alberone di Cento, Italy, who photographed the comet about 7 minutes after sunset on Jan. 14th:
