Dying ATLAS ▷

UNISTELLAR/SETI, 11 AND 14 APRIL 2020

Excitement had been building around Comet ATLAS. Discovered in December, it was on course for naked- eye visibility by May. But, as these images from a joint Unistellar/SETI Institute citizen science project show, it was not to be. Combining data from 60 Unistellar eVscope users in Europe and the US, they revealed the comet to be rapidly dimming as it broke up into several pieces.