彗星 G 3 ATLAS 落在智利小山上空
**Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
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來源：Gabriel Muñoz｜發表日期：2025-02-05
阿特拉斯彗星要去哪裡？在特寫的延時影片中，彗星本身並沒有太大的移動，但地球的自轉讓它看起來似乎正在落下一座小山。C/ 2024 G 3 （ATLAS）彗星序列是 1 月 22 日在智利中部阿勞卡尼亞地區用普通相機拍攝的。在過去的幾周裡，ATLAS 彗星一直是地球南半球夜空中令人印象深刻的一顆彗星，它如此明亮，令人敬畏，最終可能會被稱為 2025 年大彗星。不幸的是，G 3 ATLAS 彗星已經無路可走了，因為它的中心核在上個月與太陽近距離擦肩而過時碎裂了。彗星散落的一些岩石和冰塊殘骸將繼續圍繞太陽執行，其中一些殘骸的執行軌道與彗核的執行軌道幾乎相同。
原文：Where is Comet ATLAS going? In the featured time-lapse video, the comet is not itself moving very much, but the Earth's rotation makes it appear to be setting over a hill. The Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sequence was captured with an ordinary camera on January 22 from the Araucanía Region in central Chile. Comet ATLAS has been an impressive site in the evening skies of Earth's Southern Hemisphere over the past few weeks, so bright and awe-inspiring that it may eventually become known as the Great Comet of 2025. Unfortunately, Comet G3 ATLAS is not going anywhere anymore because its central nucleus broke up during its close pass to the Sun last month. Some of the comet's scattered remains of rocks and ice will continue to orbit the Sun, some in nearly the same outward section of the orbit that the comet's nucleus would have taken.
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