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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...