NASA reveals new 3I/Atlas images. What do we know about the comet?
The European Space Agency's (ESA) two satellites and several NASA spacecraft at and near Mars zoomed in on the comet as it passed the red planet just 29 million kilometres away last month.
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00:00A NASA-funded telescope, the Atlas Survey Telescope in Chile, first reported observations of the comet on July 1, 2025, to the Minor Planet Center.
00:21And NASA has been tracking and studying Comet 3I Atlas ever since.
00:25This object is a comet. It looks and behaves like a comet, and all evidence points to it being a comet.
00:31But this one came from outside the solar system, which makes it fascinating, exciting, and scientifically very important.
00:38This is only the third interstellar object like this that humanity has ever found.
00:42There is circumstantial evidence, given how fast it has come in to our solar system, that it came from some very old population of solar system around a very old star.
01:02Quite possibly, we can't say this for sure, but the likelihood is, it came from a solar system older than our own solar system itself,
01:10which gives me goosebumps to think about, frankly, because that means the 3I Atlas is not just a window into another solar system,
01:19it's a window into the deep past, and so deep in the past that it predates even the formation of our Earth and our sun.
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