Astronomers from ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), part of the Agency’s Planetary Defence Office, made these observations of the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 2 July 2025.
3I/ATLAS
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Discovery And Preliminary Characterization Of A Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS
We report initial observations aimed at the characterization of a third interstellar object candidate.
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NASA Discovers Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Moving Through Our Star System
On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from […]