Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2025 February 5 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/nt5j0NiVesQ Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill Video Credit & Copyright: [3]Gabriel Muñoz Explanation: Where is Comet ATLAS going? In the [4]featured time-lapse video, the comet is not itself moving very much, but the [5]Earth's rotation makes it appear to be setting [6]over a hill. The [7]Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sequence was captured with an ordinary camera on January 22 from the [8]Araucanía Region in central [9]Chile. Comet ATLAS has been an impressive site in the evening skies of [10]Earth's [11]Southern Hemisphere over the past few weeks, so bright and awe-inspiring that it may eventually become known as the [12]Great Comet of 2025. Unfortunately, [13]Comet G3 ATLAS is [14]not going anywhere anymore because its central [15]nucleus broke up during its close pass to the [16]Sun last month. Some of the comet's [17]scattered remains of [18]rocks and ice will continue to [19]orbit the Sun, some in nearly the same outward section of the orbit that the [20]comet's nucleus would have taken. Tomorrow's picture: open space __________________________________________________________________ [21]< | [22]Archive | [23]Submissions | [24]Index | [25]Search | [26]Calendar | [27]RSS | [28]Education | [29]About APOD | [30]Discuss | [31]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [32]Robert Nemiroff ([33]MTU) & [34]Jerry Bonnell ([35]UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn [36]Specific rights apply. [37]NASA Web Privacy, [38]Accessibility, [39]Notices; A service of: [40]ASD at [41]NASA / [42]GSFC, [43]NASA Science Activation & [44]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/nt5j0NiVesQ 3. https://www.instagram.com/gbelmm.ph 4. https://www.instagram.com/p/DFdvObFxHO9/ 5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090909.html 6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210921.html 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_G3_(ATLAS) 8. https://youtu.be/6dVlY85KzpA 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile 10. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Hemisphere 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_comet 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250126.html 14. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/9c/3e/079c3ea0dce59cc171629800294b0f3d.jpg 15. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/comet-atlas-caught-in-the-act-of-disintegration/ 16. https://science.nasa.gov/sun/ 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230903.html 18. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/ 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240811.html 20. https://www.planetary.org/space-images/cometary-nuclei-to-scale 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250204.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 27. https://apod.com/feed.rss 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 30. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=250205 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250206.html 32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 34. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 35. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 37. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 38. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/ 39. https://www.nasa.gov/privacy/ 40. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 41. https://www.nasa.gov/ 42. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 43. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 44. http://www.mtu.edu/