The comet reached its perihelion — the closest it gets to the sun — at about 36 million miles (58 million km) on Sept. 27. That’s about the distance that Mercury orbits the sun from.

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From its very inception into the Ford family in 1960, the Mercury Comet was the model that Ford apparently couldn’t figure ...

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However, also on show during totality (only) will be a bevy of planets and a comet. Uranus, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn and Mars will all be relatively close to the sun. That’s all ...

Nasa confirmed on Tuesday that its Sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the Sun. Astronomers have been tracking the ...