The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

At that time, the comet was more than 21 AU from the Sun, beyond the orbit of Uranus. Coincidentally, the earliest of those observations came from the 90-inch Bok telescope on Kitt Peak — the ...

The planet Uranus takes about 84 Earth years (or 30,688 ... Comets are icy objects, which orbit the sun at very large distances. Halley's Comet is a very famous comet that was first recorded ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...