3I/ATLAS

[dragoner]

Here is a NASA page: Comet 3I/ATLAS - NASA Science

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Wow. You guys are being pretty darn uncharitable. What a shame.

 

[overgeeked]

Wow. You guys are being pretty darn uncharitable. What a shame.

Some people love to use knowledge as a weapon, unfortunately.

 

[Hriston]

The latest images from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS

Eta: The fuzzy white dot moving downward and to the left near the center of the frame is the nucleus and visible part of the coma which are indistinguishable at this distance.

 

[Hriston]

Just a reminder, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is conjunct with the sun today, on the exact opposite side of the sun from Earth, and reaches perihelion in eight days on October 29.

 

[Reynard]

Luckily only one government out of a few hundred is shut down and there are lots of telescopes in the world.

I have it under good authority that only America does... stuff.

 

[Ryujin]

Just a reminder, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is conjunct with the sun today, on the exact opposite side of the sun from Earth, and reaches perihelion in eight days on October 29.

So it should be impacting our "Doppelgänger" (1969) any time now.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Some good information here from Anton

 

[trappedslider]

so it's not going to hit the earth and wipe us all out?

 

[aco175]

I did skip a lot of the sciency parts of the video, but seem to get the Spock theory about it traveling too fast so it must be from out of the solar system and it is from an older part of the universe based on its direction, so it must be old like 7.6 billion years.

I do not get the part of it changing trajectory as stars and planets pull at it, but we know where it comes from. If this thing played pinball all over the universe being pulled about, wouldn't we only be able to guess where it can from last?

The too long didn't watch I got was that it is nothing much to see here and just another comet.