Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is rapidly moving away from us. Can we ‘intercept’ it before it leaves us forever?
[ 19659002]Astronomers wish to send out a spacecraft to “intercept” 3I/ATLAS or the next interstellar item. Doing so would assist scientists discover more about far-off galaxy in the Milky Way….
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes closest pass of Earth. Where’s it heading next?
Satoru Murata, a New Mexico-based professional photographer, snapped this picture of Comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 16. The comet flaunts its long tail and secondary anti-tail as a far-off galaxy appears…
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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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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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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is erupting in ‘ice volcanoes’, new images suggest
Comet 3I/ATLAS appears to have spiral jets shooting off its surface area, which the authors of a brand-new preprint translate as a kind of cryovolcanism. (Image credit: Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez/…
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100,000 mph ‘comet fragment’ explodes in green fireball over Great Lakes, eerie videos show
(Image credit:(delegated right)© Skippy the Magnificent Destroyer of Worlds Romancer of Women/ © Bam B/ © Jeremy Downard) A meteor blew up over Michigan’s Great Lakes in a green fireball,…
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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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There’s another comet ATLAS in our solar system — and it just turned gold after a perilous dance with the sun
New images of the “other” ATLAS comet, C/2025 K1( ATLAS ), reveal that it has actually established a golden radiance after passing its closest indicate the sun. And scientists are…
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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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