If you didn’t get enough chills and thrills from the Halloween weekend, take a peek at the video of one researcher gently pressing on the spongy web with his bare hand. I’ll keep my desk job, thanks.
Comet me, bro
Comet 3I/ATLAS as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025 (Image credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))
Leading our coverage this morning, as they have been all week, are updates on Comet 3I/ATLAS, the fascinating third-ever interstellar visitor to our solar system being tracked by astronomers as it peeks out from behind our sun. The comet, which is 7-miles (11 kilometers) wide and traveling at 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h), has rapidly brightened as it neared our sun, changing colors three times as it sheds its highly-irradiated coma.
Before you ask, no, it’s almost certainly not an alien spaceship. But that doesn’t mean the more than 7-billion-year-old object doesn’t have a wealth of secrets to offer us about its distant home star system. We’re working on a trail of exciting updates to this story, so keep comet-ing back.
Ben Turner
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