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Written by Mark McCaughrean on 2025-01-19 at 09:45

Earlier this week, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) made its closest approach to the Sun.

While doing so, it made a dramatic appearance sweeping through the wide-field LASCO C3 coronagraph of the ESA/NASA SOHO mission over a few days.

Here’s my take, a triplet of Deep Red, Orange, & Blue filter images taken over an hour around 09:00UTC on 14 January, as an RGB composite.

[#]C2024G3 💫

[#]CometATLAS ☄️

[#]Perihelion 🌞

[#]Photography 📷

[#]SpaceScience 🛰️

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