Discovered in 2007, 333P/LINEAR is a periodic comet belonging to the Jupiter family, known for its relatively short orbital period. C/2024 G3 (ATLAS): Is expected to reach peak visibility on Jan ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astrophoto of periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky. Green nucleus and tail of ion, dust ... [+] and vapor illuminated ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is a non-periodic comet discovered on April 5, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey The comet is expected to possibly be the brightest ...

Rosanna Tilbrook, an astronomer at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, tells V.I.A. the comet likely originates from the Oort ...

The letter "P" indicates it is a periodic comet — a comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years. Meteor showers are named after the constellation from which the meteors appear to emanate ...

They are associated with Comet 8P/Tuttle, a periodic comet that follows a 13.5-year elliptical orbit around the sun. Visibility will not be hindered for the 2025 Ursid meteor shower as the new ...

Raka said the newly discovered comet is a non-periodic one that does not follow a regular orbital path like periodic comets. "As a non-periodic comet, Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS will not return ...

It was followed for two months and orbital calculations revealed that the comet was a periodic object with an orbital period less than seven years. It wasn’t recovered in 1907, when it was not ...

"The first uppercase letter refers to the type of comet- here, the 'C' shows that this one is thought to not be periodic," she notes. "The 'G3' specifies the time of discovery even further ...