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Everything We Know About Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS transforms into a giant 'cosmic rainbow' in trippy new telescope image

New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it shoots toward us through the solar system.

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Our Best View Yet of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

Space.com on MSN · 14h

Telescope spies rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming through our solar system (photos)

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using a wide variety of telescopes to observe the comet during its brief visit, before it returns to interstellar space.

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If This Comet Is What We Think It Is, It’s Unlike Any Object Humanity Has Ever Seen

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may dazzle this weekend. But is the ... - Yahoo

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will have a close encounter with the sun today (Sept. 27) here's how to make the most of comet viewing opportunities this weekend and beyond.

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Scientists find ice comet older than the Sun that may be visible from Earth this year

The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

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Astronomers think newly discovered comet may be way older than the sun

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Mystery space rock blazing through solar system ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ – and there’s a chance you can spot it

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

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