Comet 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest point to Earth tonight: How to see it in the sky and online
The Hubble telescope’s latest view of comet 3I/ATLAS (Image credit: NASA/ Hubble) Comet 3I/ATLASthe 3rd interstellar things ever discovered by astronomers, will make its closest method to Earth overnight in…
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NASA eyes 3I/ATLAS with alien-hunting Clipper spacecraft as comet approaches Earth
New ultraviolet observations of comet 3I/ATLAS(boxout) were snapped by NASA’s alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft(background illustration). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI(boxout); NASA/JPL-Caltech(background)) A NASA spacecraft created to hunt for indications of extraterrestrial life…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS is getting greener and brighter as it approaches Earth, new images reveal
[ 19659002]2 brand-new views of 3I/ATLAS from the Gemini North telescope (background) reveal the comet’s coma has actually gotten greener because its close flyby of the sun in October. (Image…
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New NASA, ESA images show 3I/ATLAS getting active ahead of its close encounter with Earth
The Hubble (left)and Juice( right)spacecraft both imaged interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS soon after its closest technique to the sun in late October. (Image credit: NASA/ Hubble( left )and ESA/ Juice(right ))…
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RIP ‘other ATLAS’: Watch the doomed comet explode into pieces in incredible new images
data-pin-nopin=”true” fetchpriority=”high”> A brand-new animation reveals the steady disintegration of comet C/2025 K1(ATLAS ), which started to disintegrate on Nov. 13. (Image credit: Michael Jäger) In area, death can be…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS gallery: See NASA’s long-awaited images of interstellar visitor
NASA shared a flurry of never-before-seen comet 3I/ATLAS images on Wednesday. (Image credit: NASA/Goddard/LASP/ CU Boulder/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Southwest Research Institute/Lowell Observatory/Qicheng Zhang/ASU/MSSS) NASA has actually launched a gold mine of…
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No, comet 3I/ATLAS hasn’t exploded — and no, that doesn’t mean it’s an alien spaceship
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS imaged from Manciano, Italy on Nov. 11. (Image credit: Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project) Comet 3I/ATLAS enthusiasts do not misery: Our preferred interstellar visitor probably didn’t simply…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS has been transformed by billions of years of space radiation, James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured spotting through the planetary system on Aug. 27 by the Gemini South telescope in Chile. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/ AURA/Shadow the ScientistImage Processing: J. Miller…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS is losing water ‘like a fire hose’ on full blast, ‘rewriting what we thought we knew’ about alien star systems
The Gemini South Observatory in Chile caught this picture of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in July. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/ AURA/Shadow the ScientistImage Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International…
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Atlas Blue Butterfly Has 229 Pairs of Chromosomes, Scientists Find
Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have actually sequenced the genome of a female Atlas blue butterfly (Polyommatus atlanticaand discovered that it…
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