Wheeeeee! ☄️ ESA/NASA’s Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft spied comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS (entering from bottom right) as it darted toward the Sun. The comet reached its perihelion, or closest approach of the Sun, today at 7:30am ET.

Here's the data we have so far showing the new (soon-to-be-vaporized) sungrazing comet in our LASCO C3 field of view. Lots of beautiful CME's kicking off too! 😍 See for yourself at the SOHO movie theater: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/

Eleven years ago today 😳 Comet ISON certainly captured the attention of a global audience! Sadly it didn't survive, but the memories live on! ☄️☀️🔭

Antares and M4 are center-stage in SOHO/LASCO C3 today. Milky Way turns up later this month ☀️🔭 soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-…

Behold daylight comet!! C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) 2025-01-14 02:06 UTC (10:06 am MYT) Elongation 5.3º Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia It was surprisingly easy to see from the computer screen,albeit only 5.3 deg from the Sun! #astronomy #astrophotography

As many have pointed out, the LASCO images on the SOHO website are saturated. So this is the result of my own algo for processing them. And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️