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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 ...
NASA has identified an interstellar comet, named 3I/ATLAS, hurtling towards us at 200,000 km/h. It should be visible by telescopes through September and reappear in December.
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 ...
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...
Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...
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 ...