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 โ 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 โ 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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Double comet alert! Comets Lemmon and SWAN will reach their brightest this week โ here’s how to spot them
[ 19659002]Comet C/2025 A6(Lemmon)will reach its closest indicate Earth today, simply one day apart from the unassociated comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN). (Image credit: Getty Images/ Javier Zayas Photography) If you…
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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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What We Know about Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
After 1I/ ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is the 3rd item and the 2nd comet from outside the Solar System verified. This image from the Multi-Object Spectrograph(GMOS-N)at the Gemini North telescope…
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