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A picture of a comet with several tails seen in the field of view of a spacecraft camera. There is a black stick with a round circle at the end of it which blocks the Sun, allowing faint nearby things to be seen. The image has greens and purples in it due to the shifts and rotations introduced to make the moving comet line up in the three sequential black and white images added to make the colour combination.

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A picture of a comet with several tails seen in the field of view of a spacecraft camera. There is a black stick with a round circle at the end of it which blocks the Sun, allowing faint nearby things to be seen. The image has greens and purples in it due to the shifts and rotations introduced to make the moving comet line up in the three sequential black and white images added to make the colour combination.
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Mark McCaughrean (markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 18:59:32 JST Mark McCaughrean

Earlier this week, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) made its closest approach to the Sun.
While doing so, it made a dramatic appearance sweeping 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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