'Halloween comet' breaks apart after flying close to the sun

A precocious discovered comet that immoderate stargazers had hoped to spot during Halloween week has disintegrated earlier nan time of ghosts and ghouls.

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured nan infinitesimal erstwhile nan comet Atlas collapsed into chunks this week arsenic it passed adjacent to nan sun.

Astronomers person been search nan alleged Halloween comet, besides known arsenic C/2024 S1, since it was discovered successful September by a scope successful Hawaii.

As it raced toward nan sun, a abstraction observatory operated by NASA and nan European Space Agency spied its demise.

The comet is thought to beryllium portion of a family of comets that walk incredibly adjacent to nan sun.

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