A timelapse of Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS taken over almost 2 hours on 25/03/20. It is heading closer to Earth and hopefully will become a naked eye comet in the next few weeks! Timelapse by Dan Monk | Kielder Observatory

Two new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show the doomed comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4). Taken on April 20 and 23, 2020, they provide the sharpest views yet of the comet's solid icy nucleus breaking apart into as many as 30 pieces that are each roughly the size of a house. The comet was discovered on Dec. 29, 2019, by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) robotic astronomical survey system based in Hawaii. The comet's fragmentation was confirmed by amateur astronomer Jose d