An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a stunning photograph of the super-bright "New Year comet" seemingly shooting behind Earth.
The comet, named C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), made its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday (Jan. 14) when it came within 88 million miles (142 million kilometers) of our planet. A day earlier, it reached perihelion, its closest point to the sun, which made it shine as bright as Venus in the night sky for several nights and even made it visible in the daytime in some places.
