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A member of the ICQ Comet Observations group has actually launched a brand-new picture of 3I/ATLAS, the 3rd item and the 2nd comet from outside the Solar System validated.
This picture of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was recorded with the Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope on November 16, 2025. Image credit: Satoru Murata.
3I/ATLAS was found by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System( ATLAS)study telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on July 1, 2025.
The comet’s orbit is the most dynamically severe of any item yet tape-recorded in the Solar System.
3I/ATLAS, likewise called C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and A11pl3Z, reached its closest technique to the Sun on October 30, 2025.
The exact same picture of 3I/ATLAS on a coordinate grid. Image credit: Satoru Murata.
On November 16, 2025, Satoru Murata from the ICQ Comet Observations group observed the comet utilizing the 0.2-m Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope.
The brand-new images reveal 3 different jets towards along with one jet far from the Sun.
“I caught the interstellar comet morning as a thin crescent Moon passed instantly beside it,” stated Murata, who is based in New Mexico, the United States.
“Still had the ability to catch 3 different jets of ionic tail, and an anti tail? Or the dust tail?”
“The comet was likewise going by the galaxy NGC 4691, which actually provided the impression of the things being from another world,” he included.
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