Tune in on Nov. 24 to watch live telescopic views of the fractured comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), which recently broke into multiple large pieces following a close brush with the sun.

The livestream, courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project, begins at 10 p.m. EST on Nov. 24 (0300 GMT on Nov. 25) and will feature live views of C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) from the organization's suite of robotic telescopes located in Manciano, Italy, weather permitting.

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was discovered barrelling towards the sun on May 24, 2025 and is believed to have originated from the Oort cloud — a frozen shell made up of billions of icy bodies that surrounds the solar system.

The comet reached perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, on Oct. 8, when it passed just 31 million miles (50 million kilometers)

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