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Space photo of the day: Brilliant comet shines at sunset over observatory in Chile

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(Image credit: Florentin Millour/ESO)

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile’s Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025.

What is it?

What you’re seeing here is the Great Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a comet discovered in 2024 that lit up the night sky late in that year and early 2025, and was the brightest comet in 18 years when it was visible to stargazers throughout January 2025. The comet was first discovered in April 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (or ATLAS) using a nearly 20-inch (0.5 meters) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. It soon became one of the most anticipated skywatching targets of early 2025.

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