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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.
New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object traveling past the orbit of Jupiter.
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...
The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...
Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...
Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...
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Astronomers race to learn more about third interstellar visitorNewfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
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