Shocking Footage Shows Comet Splitting In Three!

James Kaufman, World News Report, Today The Golden Comet is Falling Apart, No Not 3-Eye Atlas, C/2025 K1 Atlas Last week, California astronomer Dan Bartlett pointed his telescope at a Golden Comet, C/2025 K1 Atlas, to try to capture a close encounter With the Leo triplet of galaxies. he quickly realized something was very wrong. Upon close inspection the coma appeared to be somewhat flattened and the nucleus appeared somewhat elongated. These were very early signs that the comet was about to break apart. On the evening of November 12th Gianni Lucchi Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy saw the comet and its nucleus. Splitting into three pieces seen here, I managed to capture several fragments of the comet as they were breaking off. Now they're saying this is not a telescope view of that. This is actually an animation put together on the 13th, so it's more clear how things evolved. Even before it started crumbling, astronomers knew the comet was unusual. C/2025 K1 Atlas has an almost unheard of golden color, probably linked to its strange chemistry. All of the carbon compounds which give comets their unusual green and blue colors are severely depleted in C/2025 K1 Atlas. No one knows exactly why. Now the golden comet is at least three comets. You can see the fragments drifting apart using a mid-sized backyard telescope. The 10th magnitude comet is located in the morning sky, not far below the bowl of the Big Dipper. That said, so much activity and science in the heavens. God bless. Share, subscribe, and always remember that anything's possible in Bizarro World.