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 ...

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 ...

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Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

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, C/2011 W3 ...

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 ...