SwRI Says Interstellar Comet Flybys Are Achievable as 3I/ATLAS Defies Expectations
ESA's Mars orbiters and NASA spacecraft will capture detailed images and spectra of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its closest approach to Mars, enhancing understanding of its composition and origin.
- Observations from the Gemini South telescope reveal a comet known as 3I-Atlas from another star, with a growing tail and a wide coma of dust and gas around it.
- The images show that the tail of the comet is more extended than in previous shots, indicating increased activity as it travels toward the sun.
- According to the National Space Foundation's NOIRLab, these new images confirm that 3I-Atlas is becoming more active as it moves through our solar system.
- 3I-Atlas will make its closest approach to the sun at the end of October, remaining just within the orbit of Mars.
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The world's most advanced telescope has observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The unexpected results may reveal new details about its formation.
According to the scientific team, this would be the oldest and largest comet ever recorded.
Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could release ‘mini-probes’ that hit Earth, experts warn
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna are calling for greater monitoring of 3I/ATLAS which could release "mini-probes" to monitor Earth and "appear as UAPs."


The unusually high proportion of CO2 in front of the water points to the fact that this mysterious object has never approached as close to a star as it has been until now: it comes from far away and perhaps protected by a ‘coraze’ Hemeroteca - Strange bodies in the Solar System: what the objects that visit us from deep space teach us The interstellar object 3I/Atlas, the messenger of deep space that broke into our Solar System in early July, is …
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