ATLAS
A Comet “Half The Size of The Sun” Set to Zoom Past Earth Later This Month
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April 1, 2020
A Comet “Half The Size of The Sun” Set to Zoom Past Earth Later This Month
Comet ATLAS, whose Coma is around 15 arcminutes in diameter, falls somewhere between the Sun (1,392,000 km diameter) and Jupiter…
Newly Discovered Comet—Atlas—is Getting Extremely Bright as it Heads Our Way
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March 21, 2020
Newly Discovered Comet—Atlas—is Getting Extremely Bright as it Heads Our Way
There’s a comet heading our way—not it won’t crash into Earth—and astronomers are getting excited because, as it makes it…