{"id":205756,"date":"2025-02-06T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/comet-g3-atlas-looks-breathtaking-above-future-home-of-worlds-largest-telescope-photos"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:12:39","slug":"comet-g3-atlas-looks-breathtaking-above-future-home-of-worlds-largest-telescope-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/comet-g3-atlas-looks-breathtaking-above-future-home-of-worlds-largest-telescope-photos","title":{"rendered":"Comet G3 (ATLAS) looks breathtaking above future home of world\u2019s largest telescope (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/comet-g3-atlas-looks-breathtaking-above-future-home-of-worlds-largest-telescope-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the \u201c<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/comets\/why-comet-g3-atlas-will-be-remembered-as-the-great-comet-of-2025-photos\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/the-universe\/comets\/why-comet-g3-atlas-will-be-remembered-as-the-great-comet-of-2025-photos\">Great Comet of 2025<\/a>\u201d due to its daytime visibility and spectacular nighttime sightings. In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it\u2019s not hard to see why.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Yuri Beletsky caught comet G3 (ATLAS) looking almost like a watercolor painting, ESO <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/potw2505d\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/potw2505d\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">wrote in a statement<\/a> accompanying Beletsky\u2019s photo. The scene was captured on Jan. 19 beside one of the auxiliary telescopes that contribute to ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a system of four telescopes working in unison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the \u201cGreat Comet of 2025\u201d due to its daytime visibility and spectacular nighttime sightings. In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it\u2019s not hard to see why. Photographer Yuri Beletsky caught comet G3 (ATLAS) looking almost like a watercolor painting, ESO wrote in a statement accompanying Beletsky\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}