Johnston also recommends using binoculars or a telescope to view the comet when it’s visible at night, though he suggests not using either instrument when it’s visible during the day as the ...

open image in gallery U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instrument, LASCO C3, captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and the ...

"This comet was likely already a rubber pile by the time it entered SOHO's field of view," said Karl Battams, principal investigator for the LASCO instrument suite on SOHO and lead for NASA's ...

29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1 ... checking the latest image from SOHO’s LASCO C3 instrument. While comets tend to loop around the sun ...