A comet, dubbed C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), spectacularly broke apart into three huge chunks — and anybody with an eight-inch telescope or bigger can catch the resulting fireworks show for the next several weeks, according to Sky & Telescope.

The comet shouldn’t be confused with interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. K1/ATLAS originated from within the furthest stretches of the solar system, and not interstellar space.

Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope 2.0 Project, which allows public access to remotely-controlled telescopes, captured incredible pictures of the comet on Tuesday, clearly showing that the comet’s nucleus has broken into three fragments. In the pictures, the fragments glow like a car’s halogen headlights with their light piercing the gray black darkness.

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