a bright red giant star in the constellation Boötes. You may like The dazzling Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is emerging in the night sky: How to see it Astronomers just discovered a comet that could ...

27 by astronomers at the ATLAS survey in Hawaii, C/2024 S1 (Atlas) is a large “Kreutz sungrazer,” a fragment of a giant comet that broke apart over a thousand years ago. It was predicted to ...

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