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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.
Astro Bob: Rare interstellar comet pays a visit to our solar system
Based on the comet's brightness and current distance — it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit — scientists estimate its diameter at about 12 miles across. 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object to visit our neck of the woods.
Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...
Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.
Here’s when you’ll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more. Venus will shine its brightest in February. ..
Here’s when you’ll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more. Venus will shine its brightest in February. Stars get a lot of attention for shining bright, but planets shine, too.
This fall we see the return of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, and the possibility of a glimpse at a recently discovered comet. Fall officially began with the autumnal equinox at 8:43 a.m. Eastern time ...
Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...
The hunter's moon, the first full moon of fall, will be visible Thursday. ... The comet, also called C/2023 ... Jupiter and Mars, ...
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