Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Well, look who decided to swing by — a bright and shiny visitor from the Oort Cloud!
For a few days in October 2024, our own Sun was upstaged by Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, an icy, rocky dustball (a.k.a. comet) plunging toward the Sun from the outer solar system. The comet was the second-brightest ever seen by ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, and it happened to be passing by while the Sun was already putting on quite a show. Enjoy!
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
Music Credit: “Anomalies” by Lindsay Debra Wright [PRS] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Lacey Young (eMITS)
Narrator: Carolyn Ng (ADNET Systems)
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Well, look who decided to swing by — a bright and shiny visitor from the Oort Cloud!
For a few days in October 2024, our own Sun was upstaged by Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, an icy, rocky dustball (a.k.a. comet) plunging toward the Sun from the outer solar system. The comet was the second-brightest ever seen by ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, and it happened to be passing by while the Sun was already putting on quite a show. Enjoy!
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
Music Credit: “Anomalies” by Lindsay Debra Wright [PRS] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Lacey Young (eMITS)
Narrator: Carolyn Ng (ADNET Systems)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706 While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706
For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit
nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
· Instagram: instagram.com/nasagoddard
· X: twitter.com/NASAGoddard
· Facebook: facebook.com/NASAGoddard
· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
