Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But experts predict it will eventually be thrown out of the solar system forever ...
I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...
As it races back into deep space, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has staged an unexpected finale, suddenly brightening and shedding material in a spectacular flare. The outburst, caught by a suite of ...
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