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Thursday, August 21, 2025
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our Solar System to visit our neighborhood. This interstellar interloper is putting on quite a show as it approaches the Sun, revealing secrets about visitors from the depths of space. |
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More Alternate links: Google News | Twitter 3I/ATLAS is clearly active at 3.8 astronomical units as it approaches the Sun, showing dust emitted from the hot Sun facing side of the nucleus and a weak, radiation pressure swept tail away from the Sun. Interstellar visitors like 3I/ATLAS are extraordinarily rare. Before this object, only two others have been confirmed; 'Oumuamua in 2017 and Borisov in 2019. Comments
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