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SPACEWEATHER: Disintegration of Comet Atlas

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) Taken by Lionel Majzik on January 23, 2025 @ Río Hurtado, Chile

Atlas Burned Away, Quiet on the Sun

The nucleus/head of Comet Atlas was dismantled on its near pass around the Sun. It’s taken time to see but the truth has clearly come to light. Atlas is no longer bearing the “weight of the world” on his shoulders.

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 01/25/2025

THE DISINTEGRATION OF COMET ATLAS: Some comets like it hot. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is not one of them. After it flew past the sun on Jan. 13th, Comet ATLAS’s overheated core began to dissolve. Using a remote-controlled telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, astronomer Lionel Majzik recorded the disintegration:

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