If you think you are confused with the various comets of 2025 you are not alone. However, it is best to try and find which one they are talking about in order to not confuse with any other one. It seems this particular comet disintegrated when it rounded the Sun last October. It is only now that the write-up of the observations have been published. The recent study is provided with an airing at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/comet-k1-breaks-into-pieces-telescope-shot/ … the comet broke apart in the full glare of space telescopes, and their astronomers. Solar activity, it would seem, was involved, although the authors claim it was the heat of the Sun that was responsible.
At https://spaceweather.com … for February 13th 2026 has Comet 29P/Schwasmann-Wachmann as the one to watch – even in a 9 inch telescope. This one is nowhere near the inner solar system but is orbiting between Jupiter and Saturn. It is actually defined as a Centaur object but will not threaten Earth in any way. Just as well as it is shedding enormous amounts of material. It is being watched by the British Astronomical Association as it seems to be erupting on average 20 times a year. And this is way out and beyond Jupiter. It is not thought solar activity is that important in the outer regions of the solar system – contrary to the evidence beamed back by space missions. The mainstream explanation is that cryovolcanic activity within the nucleus of the comet is causing these eruptions. Ice volcanoes – whatever they might be. That is the theory that dictates how we should interpret the repeated flare ups – the brightness of the comet rising very quickly before subsiding once again. See also https://spaceweather.com/2021/10/14/volcanic-comet-blowing-its-top/ … is a link to a 2021 post at the site when Comet 29P erupted 4 times in quick succession.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-jupiter-family-comet-41ptgk-reverses.html … yet another comet – but this one dates back to 2017. Comet 41P underwent a spin reversal – a strange rotation change. It was projected into it scomet orbit after an encounter with Jupiter around 1500 years ago. It my stay on its current track for another 10,000 years – but only if it does not disintegrate prior to then. Did the comet slow down, we are informed, even come to a stop prior to spinning in the opposite direction?
For more detail see https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2602.06403 …