{"id":154089,"date":"2025-11-22T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:41:23","slug":"nasa-releases-new-images-of-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154089\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa releases new images of interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nasa has released new images of the interstellar object called 3I\/ATLAS, adding that research indicates it is a comet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The comet was originally discovered on 1 July 2025 by the Nasa-funded Atlas survey telescope based in Chile. The images were captured when 3I\/ATLAS approached solar conjunction &#8211; where it was on the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth &#8211; on 21 October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">According to the Royal Astronomical Society, 3I\/ATLAS appears to have originated from the Milky Way&#8217;s thin disk layer of more recently formed stars, or its thick disk, composed of much older stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">If the comet came from the thick disk, it could be more than seven billions years old &#8211; older than the solar system, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa has released new images of the interstellar object called 3I\/ATLAS, adding that research indicates it is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,60,248,82],"class_list":["post-154089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}