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NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.
New interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system — and you can watch it live online today
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream views beginning at 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT). The feed will showcase imagery from telescopes in Manciano, Italy, weather permitting. Tune in via Virtual Telescope's WebTV, YouTube channel or here on Space.com.
Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...
A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...
Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.
China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...
Scientists at ESA have spotted A11pl3Z, a possible interstellar object near Jupiter. Though it’s heading towards Earth, ...
It's too soon to know whether the object is a rocky asteroid or an icy comet, or how big and what shape it is.
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