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Gizmodo · 3d

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 · 3d

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.

Phys.org on MSN · 4d

Gemini north observes comet 3I/ATLAS, the third-known interstellar object

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has just been discovered. Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have captured 3I/ATLAS as it makes its temporary passage through our cosmic neighborhood.

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This comet may be older than our solar system

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

Live Science on MSN3d

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 ...

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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 3I/ATLAS is captured in this image by the Gemini North telescope. The incredible sensitivity of Gemini North's Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS-N) reveals the comet’s ...

It's out of this world. Or, more accurately, this solar system.On July 1, astronomers discovered an object near the orbit of Jupiter that was somewhat peculiar. It had a strange orbit, one that didn't ...

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