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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.

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According to the scientific team, this would be the oldest and largest comet ever recorded.

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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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