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#PPOD: Discovered last year by the Asteroid Terrestial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), #Comet C/2024 G3 reached its perihelion on 13 January 2025. Unfortunately, the bright comet did not survive the close pass intact and lost its nucleus. Fortunately, many photographers have captured beautiful images such as this one, taken on 19 January at ESO's Paranal Observatory by astronomer Yuri Beletsky, which still shows the long, wispy tail. Credit: Yuri Beletsky

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In the foreground is one of the telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. Overhead, the sky is darkening into night, deep blue and full of stars at the top and orange near the horizon. Angling up from the horizon is a comet's thin, wispy tail, stretching over halfway across the sky.
#science #Space #scicomm #comet #PPOD
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