NASA releases close-up images of an interstellar comet making a rare flyby

NASA released the close-up images on Wednesday ARTERSTERLLAR Comet That’s one pass through the solar system.

One of the pictures shows a comet, also known as 3i / atlasas it travels through space about 190 million miles from Earth. Taken in Maciano, Italy.

The comet was first discovered in July and has been photographed several times. In early August, Extracted images are displayed comet from about 277 million miles. A month ago, Pictures taken by the Mars Orbit pair He pointed to the bright, bright white spot of the comet about 18,641,135 kilometers away from Mars.

3i/Atlas is the third confirmed interstellar comet to enter our solar system.

A comet can be seen from Earth in the background sky using binoculars or a telescope.

“Everyone who is in control of the telescope wants to look because it is an exciting and unusual opportunity,” NASA’s director of astrophysics, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, told the Associated Press.

The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19, comes within 170 million miles, about twice the Earth – distance of the sun. NASA Spacecraft will continue to track it as it travels through the solar system, crossing Jupiter’s Orbiter in Sky 2026.

ESA’s juice spacecraft, bound for Jupiter, has been training its cameras and scientific instruments on the comet all month, especially after it passes close to the sun. But scientists won’t get any of those observations back until February because Jusi’s large antenna acts as a heat shield while it’s close to the sun, reducing data transmission.

Named after a telescope in Chile that saw it for the first time, the comet is believed to be 1,444 meters across and 3.5 kilometers across. The sightings indicate the possibility that a fast-moving comet may have appeared in a star system older than our own – “which gives me goose bumps to think about,” said Nasa scientist Tom Stutle.

“That means that 3i / Atlas is not just a window to another solar system, it is a window into the deep past and very deep into the past of the formation of the earth and our sun,” said the journalists.

NASA officials have dismissed rumors that a “visitor to the Solar Friendly System” may actually be an Alien Spacecraft.