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                               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.

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