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C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a partially disintegrated non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun. Dubbed the Great Comet of 2025 , it is currently the brightest comet of 2025, [ 6 ] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [ 5 ]
From planetary meet-ups to the first total lunar eclipse in three years, here are the top astronomy events to look for throughout 2025: Stellar views of Mars will greet stargazers in January as ...
January 1 - New Year's Day; January 20 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day; February 17 - Presidents' Day; March 26 - Prince Kūhiō Day; April 18 - Good Friday; May 26 - Memorial Day; June 11 – Kamehameha Day; July 4 - Independence Day; August 15 – Statehood Day; September 1 - Labor Day; November 11 - Veterans Day; November 27 - Thanksgiving ...
8405 Asbolus / ˈ æ z b ə l ə s / is a centaur orbiting in the outer Solar System between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune.It was discovered on 5 April 1995, by James Scotti and Robert Jedicke of Spacewatch (credited) at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona, United States.
A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is "notoriously hard" to predict, but ...
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered from the ATLAS–HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October 2024, at a distance of about 0.008 AU (1.2 million km; 0.74 million mi) from the barycenter of the Solar System, [1] and disintegrated.
Conan O'Brien will be the host of the 2025 Oscars.. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the decision in November and will mark the comedian and former late-night talk show ...
The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus noted the apsidal precession of the Moon's orbit (as the revolution of the Moon's apogee with a period of approximately 8.85 years); [4] it is corrected for in the Antikythera Mechanism (circa 80 BCE) (with the supposed value of 8.88 years per full cycle, correct to within 0.34% of current measurements). [5]