Several members of the Kreutz family have become great comets, occasionally visible near the Sun in the daytime sky. The most recent of these was Comet Ikeya–Seki in 1965, which may …

Oct 29, 2024 · Historically, Kreutz sungrazers, such as Ikeya-Seki (1965) and Lovejoy (2011), have often become particularly bright, visible even in daylight. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) …

A comet seen by Aristotle and Ephorus may have been a Kreutz sungrazer. However, until 1979, only nine sungrazing comets had been seen, all from ground-based observations. Then, …

Oct 28, 2024 · The new sungrazing comet is part of the Kreutz sungrazers. These are comets that come perilously close to the sun, where they can disintegrate or, if we’re lucky, become …

Apr 17, 2024 · Observers who photographed the April 8th total solar eclipse received an unexpected bonus when totality revealed a comet diving toward the Sun, known as a Kreutz …

The Kreutz sungrazers are a group of comets descended from the breakup of a comet in about 326 AD. They are typically traveling less than 2 solar radii from the Sun. Because they travel …

A NASA-funded Citizen Science Project that enables anyone in the world to become a comet discoverer! How does it work? Participants download the latest images from the ESA/NASA …

Polish amateur comet hunter Arkadiusz Kubczak recently discovered his third comet in SOHO LASCO coronagraph images, but this one was special: the 1000th SOHO comet discovery in …

This animation shows one year of LASCO data, with C2 and C3 combined, with an overlay showing the orbit of the Kreutz group. Note that SOHO's Kreutz-group discoveries do not …

On 27 Sept., 2024, a new comet having temporary designation A11bP7I (now officially designated as C/2024 S1 ATLAS), was discovered by the ATLAS survey from Hawaii and almost …