15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... to Earth on 23 May and come to perihelion (closest to the Sun) on 31 May, 2020. Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on April 20, 2020. Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ D. Jewitt (UCLA) If you've enjoyed reading this article, please...