When comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was first discovered in late September, it was almost immediately identified as a member of the ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its closest approach to the Sun on Monday. The affectionately nicknamed ...

The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec. 2011, remains the only Kreutz Path comet to have survived its brush with the sun.

Then, in December 2011, Comet Lovejoy, another Kreutz sungrazing comet, disintegrated just before Christmas, leaving in its wake a bright tail that was seen both from the ground as well as the ...

A handful of larger sungrazing comets have been observed surviving their close pass by the sun, such as comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy in 2011. Initially discovered using a ground telescope ...

The most recent one was Comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy in 2011. NASA's SOHO also watched this one happen, and so you can you. The comet, which is much brighter in SOHO's view than the Halloween comet was ...

However, the comet’s tail could survive and become a headless comet. Such comets are not unique, with Comet Lovejoy disintegrating before Christmas in 2011, Space.com wrote.