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Karl Battams

@SungrazerComets • 21,482 subscribers

Computational scientist / astrophysicist. Comets, asteroids, Sun & data science. Personal account; all opinions mine.

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It's official: new Kreutz-group sungrazing comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is headed for a toasty rendezvous on Oct28. While European Space Agency/NASA SOHO has seen 1000's of Kreutz comets, it's very rare for one to be found a month before perihelion. The last *similar* one was Comet Lovejoy in 2011👇

It's official: new Kreutz-group sungrazing comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is headed for a toasty rendezvous on Oct28. While European Space Agency/NASA SOHO has seen 1000's of Kreutz comets, it's very rare for one to be found a month before perihelion. The last similar one was Comet Lovejoy in 2011👇

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Wondering what happened to comet Nishimura? It's still quite happily sunbathing in the field of view of our U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) HI-1 camera on NASA STEREO-A! Lots of great ion tail / solar wind interaction happening! ☄️☀️ Download the full-res movie here:

Wondering what happened to comet Nishimura? It's still quite happily sunbathing in the field of view of our U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) HI-1 camera on NASA STEREO-A! Lots of great ion tail / solar wind interaction happening! ☄️☀️ Download the full-res movie here:

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I'm so very excited to announce that European Space Agency/NASA SOHO, via the NASA Citizen Science Sungrazer Project, has discovered its FIVE THOUSANDTH comet!!! ☀️☄️🥳

I'm so very excited to announce that European Space Agency/NASA SOHO, via the NASA Citizen Science Sungrazer Project, has discovered its FIVE THOUSANDTH comet!!! ☀️☄️🥳

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