Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the Chilean Skies

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is captured here in all its beauty by Cesar Briceño, Director of the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR), a part of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) may be one of the brightest comets to pass by Earth in 2025, which made it an easily observable object for those lucky enough to see it. Briceño also photographed the comet in full beauty and another photographer, Carlos Corco, captured a complementary view of the comet against the landscape of the Andean foothills.