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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System

Hubble Space Telescope image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025. The comet appears as a teardrop-shaped, bluish cocoon of dust (coma) around its solid icy nucleus, with a faint tail. Streaks in the image are background stars blurred by Hubble tracking the fast-moving comet science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. Discovery and Naming of 3I/ATLAS The comet…
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Interstellar Comet, ‘Trojan Horse’ Cancer Cure & AI’s Hidden Carbon Cost – Science Highlights (Aug 18–19, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Health & Medicine Biology & Ecology Physics Chemistry Climate Science Technology & AI Environmental Science Sources: The above summaries are based on reporting and press releases from sources including ScienceDaily, SciTechDaily, NASA, Space.com, Nature journals, and other outlets scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com space.com scitechdaily.com discovermagazine.com sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com…
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – Third Cosmic Visitor Unveiled, Fast and Enormous

Discovery of 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor From Beyond Astronomers have confirmed a rare cosmic interloper entering our solar system – a comet from another star. The object, officially designated 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted on July 1, 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile science.nasa.gov esa.int. (ATLAS stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert…
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Origin, Trajectory and Scientific Stakes In 2025’s Third‑Ever Extrasolar Visitor

Key take‑aways (one‑paragraph executive summary) In early July 2025 astronomers using the NASA‑funded ATLAS telescope in Chile discovered a hyper‑fast object now designated 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)—only the third confirmed interstellar body to enter our Solar System after ’Oumuamua (2017) and Borisov (2019). Follow‑up astrometry shows an inbound velocity of ≈58 km s⁻¹ and an orbital eccentricity of ≈6.1, values far in…
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