Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS: View from New Mexico
C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet first seen in May 2025. It is one of many comets discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) that was developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA.
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders the state of Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south.
Image Credit: Rolando Ligustri
Image Details: Newton 300/1140 CCD ASI2600MM bin2 RGB=2x120s L=8x120s, New Mexico Telescope Network
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Image Date: Dec. 26, 2025
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