This comet was one of a number of comets that are occasionally visible from Earth. They were created from a much larger comet ...

It is a type of comet known as a "Kreutz sungrazer." Kreutz sungrazers belong to the Kreutz group, a family of comets known ...

"This comet was likely already a rubble pile by the time it entered SOHO’s field of view," said U.s. Naval Research Laboratory's Karl Battams, the lead for NASA’s Sungrazer Project. The ...

Scientists believe they originate from a giant comet that broke up into smaller comets thousands of years ago. Many comets through history that have been given the name "Great" were all Kreutz ...

It's called C/2024 S1, discovered on September 27, a rare Kreutz sungrazer comet whose trajectory is due to bring it within just 1.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles) of the Sun on 28 October 2024.

Comet ATLAS S1 is also a Kreutz sungrazer. So far faintly visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, in the mornings after Tuesday, Oct. 29 through Thursday Oct. 31 (Halloween) it could become ...

This comet was first spotted in satellite data by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project, as Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on ...

Greetings, stargazers. This is the time of year to get your astronomer holiday wish list in order and make predictions for the new year. I was surprised to look through my previous columns and ...