January 2025 hosts extraordinary celestial events, including the rare appearance of Comet G3 ATLAS, visible once every 160,000 years. Optimal viewing in the Southern Hemisphere this evening offers ...
The ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey in Chile first detected Comet G3 ATLAS on 5 April 2024. It was at magnitude +19, which was faint and quite hard to see. This makes ...