C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)

C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a sungrazing comet.

It could become the brightest comet of 2025. It may have an apparent magnitude that is stronger than −3.5. 

The comet is visible in the Southern Hemisphere before and after perihelion. It can only be observed in the daytime sky around perihelion in the Northern Hemisphere.

It will reach perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU from the Sun.

Discovery
The comet was first discovered thru a telescope in Chile (April 2024).https://www.nrk.no/vestfoldogtelemark/ny-komet-pa-himmelen-denne-helga-1.17200460. Retrieved 2025-01-11

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