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You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
Astronomers are meticulously tracking the new interstellar visitor that is crossing our solar system. Officially designated ...
A comet has entered the Solar System from interstellar space and will pass through the inner planets later this year, NASA ...
Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...
A diagram shows the trajectory of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. It will make its closest approach to the sun in October.
But now 3I/ATLAS appears to be a comet like Borisov, the second interstellar object observed. For a comet, the brightness comes from sunlight bouncing off a plume of gas and dust known as a coma ...
Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no danger to Earth and will remain roughly 150 million miles away as it speeds by.
Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...
On July 1, the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope reported the discovery of A11pl3Z, an ...