The main astronomical event of recent weeks was certainly the visit of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). After passing perihelion, it gained enough brightness to be seen with the naked eye at the equator and in the southern hemisphere of the Earth. This was not slowed down by astrophotographers taking several images of the comet. The editors of Universe Space Tech have selected the best of them.
The first photo in our selection was taken by astrophotographer Yuri Beletsky in the Chilean Atacama Desert. This is how C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) looked on January 17.

The next day, Yuri Beletsky photographed the comet again. It is easy to see how much its tail has increased in just one day.

And this image, which was also taken on January 18, gives a visual idea of how the comet looked in the sky when it was observed with the naked eye. In the image, it is adjacent to one of the telescopes of the Paranal Observatory.

Although for obvious reasons the Atacama Desert provides some of the best conditions on our planet for astronomical observations, C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has been photographed in other countries. This image was taken on January 17 in Namibia.

A beautiful series of images of the comet was taken by French astrophotographer Luc Perrot on Réunion Island. The first image was taken on January 18.

The second picture is from January 19.

And this is how /2024 G3 (ATLAS) looked in the sky over Brazil. The image was taken on January 17.

In this image, Brazilian astrophotographer Daniel Mello captured himself in front of a comet. The image was taken on January 19.

During the first few days after perihelion, the comet could also be photographed in the northern hemisphere of the Earth – although this was not an easy task. Nevertheless, Czech astrophotographer Petr Horalek managed to pull it off. The photo shows the comet in the sky above the Tatra Mountains shortly before sunrise.

The comet was photographed not only by the inhabitants of our planet. Astronaut Don Pettit, who is on the ISS, took this picture of the tail guest. It was received on January 11 shortly before it passed the perihelion of its orbit.

And this is how the SOHO observatory, which studies the Sun, saw the tailed guest. Its original image was processed by imposing several filters. The image was taken on January 13 – that is, on the day when the comet passed the perihelion of its orbit.
