NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS
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NASA will reveal new imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday (Nov. 19), and you can watch it live. The 3I/ATLAS photos, which were "collected by a number of the agency's missions," according to a statement NASA posted on Monday afternoon (Nov. 17), will be unveiled during a press conference on Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT).
The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside the solar system.
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Mars orbiter narrows down the exact path of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by 'ten-fold,' surprising scientists
Scientists from the European Space Agency have significantly narrowed down the trajectory of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS thanks to data from the alien comet's recent flyby of Mars, allowing for more accurate future observations.