Another sungrazing comet has been discovered after last month's C/2024 S1 (ATLAS). Citizen scientist Zesheng Yang found the comet on Wednesday night. Karl Battams, manager of NASA's citizen ...

making it a sungrazing comet. Sungrazing comets are those that pass within about 850,000 miles of the sun. Many of them ...

Comet ATLAS, a sungrazing comet, is on its way toward the sun. It was just discovered in September. These types of comets, according to Sky & Telescope, have the potential to become bright enough ...

A handful of larger sungrazing comets have been observed surviving their close pass by the sun, such as comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy in 2011. Initially discovered using a ground telescope ...

This family of comets originated from a large parent comet that broke up into smaller fragments well over a thousand years ago and continues to orbit around the Sun today. Kreutz sungrazing comets ...

In 1965, sungrazing Comet Ikeya-Seki became as bright as a 1st quarter moon. Unfortunately, Battams said the chances of the comet surviving its close passage of the Sun are extremely low ...