It had to happen. In our last post, The Dangerous Lives of Sungrazer Comets [1], we reported that from all the studies of sungrazers to date, “it’s plain that there are more astonishing sungrazing comets to come.” Now, images taken on January 13 th  of this year from Atacama, Chile, have revealed the inbounding of another Kreutz sungrazer comet, C/2026 A1 (MAPS), the third discovered from the ground in the 21 st  century. The first was C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) – which lost its he

Great March Comet of 1843 Do comets have family histories? Some do. We’ll discover the genealogical history of a special family of...