April 5, 2026 #Comet ☄️ MAPS (C/2026 A1) diving toward the #sun and meeting its end earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-so...

Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1) diving toward the sun and meeting its end

April 5, 2026 #Comet ☄️ MAPS (C/2026 A1) diving toward the #sun and meeting its end earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-so...

A comet moving slowly in front of background stars.

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - Juice - is on a mission to the largest planet in our solar system. But last November, it had a chance to observe interstellar #comet 3I/ATLAS on its way. Read about new insights on Comet 3I/ATLAS at: buff.ly/1ZRwKWt

📸 ESA/Juice/JANUS. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

The remnants of Comet MAPS have slowly reemerged. But the chance this is going to be a Comet Lovejoy type headless wonder are very small.

#comet #cometMAPS #MAPS

Astroblog: UPATE: Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive

UPATE: Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) before heading into the oculting disk of the LASCO C3 imager Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) debris plume exiting the oculting disk of th...

#C/2026 #A1 #comet #Kreutz #sun #grazer

Origin | Interest | Match

#StefanBurns with the latest extreme #SpaceWeatherEvent, a massive #Sunflare bc of a #comet possibly impacting the sun.
what effect will that have on #Artemis2? and #earth?

youtu.be/q7fMtINMFsM?

#press #SpaceNews #science #CronoMassEjection #space #IndependentMedia

Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) has perihelion day, latest images show the tail still intact, waiting for 15-17:00 images to see if it survived. This comet is a Kreutz group sungrazer like Ikeya Seki or Ison and if it survives can get really bright or it dies right now
#comet #c/2026a1

Hubble shows 'farting' comet reversing its spin for the first time ever —‬ and it may soon 'self-destruct' A new analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope photos reveals that a peculiar comet slowed its spin before fully reversing its rotational direction during a flyby of Earth in 2017.

Maybe the #comet needs to learn better #manners
www.livescience.com/space/comets... #gas #astronomy #kuiper

The sun, blocked out but with rays of light coming from it, with a bright dot with a tail headed straight toward it.

Sungrazing #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is plunging toward the sun and will get closest at 10:22 a.m. EDT (14:22 UTC) today. Read about comet MAPS here: buff.ly/Ur2id3v or, for details on when and how to look for it in Earth’s sky, IF it survives, check out this video: buff.ly/PVGF7LF

📸 LASCO C3/ SOHO.

The bellow + this fantastic blog post + a colleague pointing out that @cometinterceptor.bsky.social will be more like #Giotto (fast flyby) than #Rosetta (extended rendez-vous) has got me reading a load of #comet Halley ☄️ papers from before I was born, today 😀
www.drewexmachina.com/2016/03/06/t...

Astroblog: Comet C/2026A1 (MAPS) update and prospects.

Comet C/2026A1 (MAPS) update and prospects. UPDATE: The comet did not survive: astroblogger.blogspot.com/2026/04/upate-comet-c202... Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) in the STEREO ...

#C/2026 #A1 #comet #Kreutz #sun #grazer

Origin | Interest | Match

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Hide and Seek Comet 😭🥀 #arcraiders #arcraidersgame #comet #comedy #fyp

893-DarkSky Oregon Artificial light at night also known as light pollution is degrading human safety and health as well as damaging the natural environment on which we all depend. The loss of the connection with the natural night sky has happened over the past 100 years. Restoring the natural night sky is relatively simple and can even save money. Before restoration can effectively begin it is essential to make night sky brightness measurements in both natural night sky and urban locations.

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Artwork of a lumpy rock in space with a white stream of material flowing out.

For the 1st time, the #HubbleSpaceTelescope has observed a #comet start to spin in the opposite direction. As comet 41P neared the sun, frozen material warmed and turned to gas. This created jets that fired in the opposite direction to its spin. ☄️🔭
buff.ly/NQRr8SN

📸 NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ Ralf Crawford.

Coronagraph image of Sun with bright CME and a comet streak circled, showing tail streaming away.

Sungrazing #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) has entered the field of view of the SOHO spacecraft's LASCO C3 coronagraph. It's expected to be visible there through April 6. Read about Comet MAPS at: buff.ly/Ur2id3v

📸 SOHO/ LASCO.

A digital artwork depicting a comet, labeled "COMET C/2026 A1 (MAPS)," soaring across a night sky with a vibrant sunset in the background. The landscape features rocky terrain and distant mountains, creating a dramatic celestial scene.

Shared by Luna Discovery : “ On April 4, 2026, Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) reaches perihelion — its closest point to the Sun — glowing brighter than ever as its icy core ignites and its tail stretches across the sky like a river of light.” #comet #Astronomy

SOHO LASCO C3 view of the sun on 2 April 2026, 21:42 h.

Is this already C/2026 A1 (MAPS) on the lower left in SOHO LASCO's C3?
#comet

*Hastily converts all my #comet activity modelling code to output in Olympic swimming pools per day rather than SI units* 😅

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Just how insanely precise was the #3iAtlas correction engine burn?

The margin is absurdly tight.
Jupiter's Hill radius on that date is 53.502 million km. The margin is 0.06 million km, that's one part in 1,000 relative to the Hill radius, and one part in 26,000 relative to Jupiter's full […]

Get your camera ready for a pink moon, a comet, and a meteor shower this month! Everything you need to know about what’s worth photographing in the night skies in April 2026

Heads up in April all you wonderful photographers both professional & amateur!! Lots of wonderful heavenly bodies on view this month. Check the list below! ☄️🌌🌕
Remember don't walk whilst looking up! 😂

#Photography #PinkMoon #Comet #NightSkies #Nature

www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...

Data shows that #3iAtlas is definitely not a comet, it does not behave like a comet ever has, and the papers reporting the data have given up on trying to match the data into existing comet models.

Every #comet ever observed has its fast outgassing on the […]

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12-Billion-Year-Old Space Invader? James Webb Space Telescope Reveals the Ancient Origins of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 3I/ATLAS may be more than the strangest space object astronomers have observ...

#Astronomy #Breaking #News #Space #12 #billion #years #old […]

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HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. It’s a vivid memory from the summer I graduated high school, and it’s stayed with me ever since.

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. Shown on my art desk with several pans of sparkly watercolors used in the piece. There’s a lot of sparkle going on.

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. Shown at a slight angle to capture some of the blue-purple color shift in the paints.

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. Detail of the tail area, where a whisper of purple can be seen amid the blues and greens.

New painting just dropped!! HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS, 10x8”, pearlescent watercolor on black paper w/aluminum mount. (Really!)

#watercolor #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #SciArt #comet

Side stories: Oh, again we cross paths…
#fantasy #liminal #mage #witch #lesbian #nonbinary #goth #alt #queer #emptyspaces #space #comet

Observation of #Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) in images from PUNCH taken on 28 March 2026. 🛰️

Source: PUNCH mission (NASA/SwRI), data via #NASA SDAC

#spaceweather

they love fries

#secretnova #comet #cherry

A Post-perihelion Constraint On The CO2/H2O Ratio Of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS From [O I] Forbidden Lines - Astrobiology We present high-resolution optical spectroscopy of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

A Post-perihelion Constraint On The CO2/H2O Ratio Of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS From [O I] Forbidden Lines
astrobiology.com/2026/03/a-po... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #Interstellar #Comet #3IATLAS

382E-418-Fireball II Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space of only 10 hours. A total of 1320 individuals were treated to light shows and reported their observations to the American Meteor Society. The one which exploded over Arizona was probably several feet in diameter and entered the Earth's atmosphere over Flagstaff. This event was observed in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. It was recorded by numerous electronic security and dashboard cameras and was visible for from 3 to 7 seconds. This meteor also produced a booming sound which was reported by about a dozen different observers. The fireball was last seen over Happy Jack, Arizona and is likely to have produced meteorite fragments which are scattered along Interstate 17 somewhere in the rugged country between Phoenix and Flagstaff. There are likely to be on the order of 1,000 fireball events over the Earth every day. Most of them occur over the oceans or during the day and pass unobserved by humans. During the first 10 months of 2017 the most energetic fireball event occurred when a meteoroid entered the Earth's atmosphere at 8.5 miles/second above the ocean between Australia and Antartica. If you record a fireball with your dash cam or security camera report it to the American Meteor Society. Your data will be very important in finding out where it came from in the solar system as well as to indicate where it might be possible to find pieces of it on the ground.

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Les astronomes n’avaient jamais vu ça : une comète se met à tourner à l’envers et pourrait ne pas y survivre En utilisant les données archivées du télescope spatial Hubble, un astronome a découvert qu'il y a une dizaine d'années une comète a subi une transformation inédite, offrant un exemple fr...

Une comète tourne à l’envers: spectacle rare ou fin imminente? Les astronomes sont bluffés par ce phénomène inattendu

www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/act...

#Space #Science #Innovation #Astrophysics #Astronomy #Comet #SolarSystem #JWSTData