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<\/p>\nNASA Shares Interstellar Comet 3I\/ATLAS Images – YouTube
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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n NASA will reveal new imagery of the interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS on Wednesday (Nov. 19), and you can watch it live.<\/p>\n The 3I\/ATLAS<\/a> photos, which were “collected by a number of the agency’s missions,” according to a statement<\/a> NASA posted on Monday afternoon (Nov. 17), will be unveiled during a press conference on Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT).<\/p>\n You can watch the event live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency.<\/a><\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \n A Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS, captured on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles (446 million kilometers) from Earth. (Image credit: NASA\/ESA\/David Jewitt (UCLA)\/ Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))<\/p>\n The briefing participants are:<\/p>\n NASA Associate Administrator Amit KshatriyaNicky Fox, associate administrator, NASA’s Science Mission DirectorateShawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director, NASA’s Astrophysics DivisionTom Statler, NASA lead scientist for solar system small bodies<\/p>\n Comet 3I\/ATLAS was discovered on July 1 of this year by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) observatory, which is funded by NASA.<\/p>\n It’s the third interstellar comet<\/a> ever discovered in our solar system<\/a>, after 1I\/’Oumuamua<\/a> and 2I\/Borisov<\/a>, which were spotted in October 2017 and August 2019, respectively.<\/p>\n On Oct. 29, 3I\/ATLAS made its closest approach to the sun<\/a>, a milestone known as perihelion; it came within about 130 million miles (210 million kilometers) of our star. The new imagery may highlight increased cometary activity caused by this solar passage, though NASA’s brief release doesn’t tease that possibility.<\/p>\n “Assets within NASA’s science missions give the United States the unique capability to observe 3I\/ATLAS almost the entire time it passes through our celestial neighborhood, and study \u2014 with complementary scientific instruments and from different directions \u2014 how the comet behaves,” NASA officials said in the statement. “These assets include both spacecraft across the solar system<\/a>, as well as ground-based observatories.”<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sye7gV5yuME9CoKuHsW8ge.jpg\")
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