I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star.
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‘Difficult to explain’ comet 3I/ATLAS erupts in X-rays after 400,000-km halo appears
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has turned into one of the strangest visitors in the recent history of the solar system, ...
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Rare comet dives into the sun today then slingshots back toward Earth
Comet C/2024 E1, better known as Wierzchos, is skimming past the Sun in a tight, blazing turn that will fling it back toward ...
C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun.
A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...
This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...
The international team of astronomers reports that all of the types of ice in the comet appear to be sublimating. This is the phase change where a solid turns into a gas, skipping the liquid phase.
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Final chance to see Comet 3I/ATLAS as it leaves the Solar System this weekend: How and when to watch
Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed, is making its final pass through our skies, offering a rare ...
PUNCH’s observations of comet 3I/ATLAS from Sept. 28 to Oct. 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million miles from Earth. Each frame is a daily stacked image, made up of multiple ...
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