A sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion – sometimes within a few thousand kilometres of the Sun's surface. Although small sungrazers can completely evaporate ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an unintended consequence of the instrument’s sensitivity, LASCO also detects large numbers of previously unknown sungrazing comets. Comets in SOHO/LASCO data are dynamic ... in order to enhance ...

Since then, SOHO has discovered more than 5,000. The vast number of comets discovered using SOHO has allowed scientists to learn more about sungrazing comets and identify comet families, descended ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

1882年日蚀彗星（The Eclipse Comet of 1882，编号为X/1882 K1）是一颗出现于1882年的克鲁兹族彗星。 1882年5月17日，当时埃及部分地区上空出现日食，吸引不少观测者慕名而来。在太阳全被月球遮盖时，他们看到太阳隔邻有一道强光，发现一颗克鲁兹族彗星正于日全食时 ...

The Vega-C rocket ready for liftoff. ESA/Manuel Pedoussaut Europe’s much-needed launch vehicle Vega-C had a less-than-ideal inaugural flight, prompting a two-year hiatus to allow a redesign of ...

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