Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just captured an incredible image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system at 130,000 mph!
This cosmic wanderer from beyond our solar system may have been traveling for billions of years before astronomers spotted it.
Watch now to discover what this ancient visitor reveals about our galaxy's history and why scientists are racing to study it before its close encounter with the Sun in 2025!
For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Music Credit:
"God is in the Wind" by Yat Fung Wong [CASH] via Universal Publishing Production Music Asia [CASH] and Universal Production Music
Video Credits:
Halley’s Comet Animation via Pond5
Milky Way Timelapse via Pond5
Comet Grazing the Sun (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Exocomets in Solar System
ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger
Comets orbiting White Dwarf Star
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
Oumuamua Image
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just captured an incredible image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system at 130,000 mph!
This cosmic wanderer from beyond our solar system may have been traveling for billions of years before astronomers spotted it.
Watch now to discover what this ancient visitor reveals about our galaxy's history and why scientists are racing to study it before its close encounter with the Sun in 2025!
For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Music Credit:
"God is in the Wind" by Yat Fung Wong [CASH] via Universal Publishing Production Music Asia [CASH] and Universal Production Music
Video Credits:
Halley’s Comet Animation via Pond5
Milky Way Timelapse via Pond5
Comet Grazing the Sun (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Exocomets in Solar System
ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger
Comets orbiting White Dwarf Star
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
Oumuamua Image
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14882. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14882. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.
See more Hubble videos on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN
Follow NASA's Hubble Space Telescope:
· Facebook: facebook.com/NASAHubble
· X: twitter.com/NASAHubble
· Instagram: instagram.com/NASAHubble
· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nasahubble
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youtube.com/NASAGoddard
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· X twitter.com/NASAGoddard
· Facebook: facebook.com/NASAGoddard
· Flickr flickr.com/photos/gsfc
