{"id":174947,"date":"2025-12-09T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174947\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:45:08","slug":"nasa-releases-incredible-new-photos-of-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174947\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA releases incredible new photos of interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a> <\/p>\n

The recently discovered interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS was spotted by the new NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope <\/a>captured a deeper look at interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, as it zoomed through the solar system on Nov. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects zipping through the solar system, other galaxies and exoplanets, NASA<\/a> explains, and allows astronomers to study stars and galaxies farther back in time more than ever.<\/p>\n

ASTRONOMERS SPOT RARE INTERSTELLAR COMET SPEEDING THROUGH SOLAR SYSTEM<\/a><\/p>\n

NASA<\/a> first spotted interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS zooming through the solar system in summer 2025 with the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scientists determined it to be interstellar due to its high velocity and trajectory, as it\u2019s only the third known discovered object to pass through from the outside.<\/p>\n

GIGANTIC INTERSTELLAR 3I\/ATLAS COMET ACCELERATES AND TURNS BLUE NEAR SUN, SCIENTISTS SAY<\/a><\/p>\n

Officials say that comet will come no closer than 170 million miles from Earth<\/a> and poses no threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NASA's <\/p>\n

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 instrument view of comet 3I\/ATLAS Nov. 30.<\/p>\n

(NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

In its most recent siting, the comet was about 178 million miles from our planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hubble tracked the comet as it sped through the solar system, resulting in background stars looking like streaks of light, as seen in the image above.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA explains that it\u2019s on a hyperbolic trajectory, meaning it moves too fast to be bound to the Sun’s<\/a> gravity<\/a>, causing it not to follow a closed orbital path around the Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Spectral <\/p>\n

Spectral data for 3I\/ATLAS observed using JWST\u2019s NIRSpec.<\/p>\n

(NASA\/ESA\/CSA \/ NASA)<\/p>\n

This means it\u2019s merely just passing through our solar system before it vanishes.<\/p>\n

NEW IMAGES RELEASED OF \u2018INTERSTELLAR WANDERER\u2019 ZOOMING THROUGH OUR SOLAR SYSTEM<\/a><\/p>\n

“So we use all the tools at our disposal to observe it before it disappears back into the cosmic dark,” said NASA, as a host of their missions have come together to observe the interstellar object<\/a> to its fullest extent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HOW TO WTACH FOX WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n

Observations are expected to continue for several more months and NASA\u2019s space telescopes will help the ongoing mission to find, track, and gain more valuable knowledge on solar system objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recently discovered interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS was spotted by the new NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-174947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}