Atlas shrugs off talk of disintegration in magnificent video, using images from the Stereo-A spacecraft.

Comet Atlas zips past the sun in images taken by NASA's Stereo-A spacecraft.

And the latest batch of images from a NASA spacecraft show the comet's journey past the sun in exquisite detail.

Battams lead the Sungrazer Project, which uses images from solar telescopes maintained by NASA and the European Space Agency to look for moving objects around our star.

Battam's processed animation uses a series of images from NASA's Stereo-A spacecraft, a space-based observatory studying the sun, from May 30.

With some new image processing, here's a short animation of comet ATLAS in the @USNRL HI-1 field of view on @NASASun STEREO-A!