The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

It rapidly zooms into the morning sky, reaching an angular distance of 15 degrees from the sun by month's end. Meanwhile, glowing brilliantly, well up in the southern and western sky is Jupiter.

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 ... "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit ...