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A new image of 3I/ATLAS has just been released — and it changes everything we thought we knew about interstellar objects.
Captured by Hubble and confirmed by James Webb and ESA’s Mars orbiters, this third-ever interstellar visitor shows a strange CO₂-dominated coma, eight times richer than any known comet, and a tear-shaped dust cloud facing the Sun — something NASA scientists can’t fully explain.
A new image of 3I/ATLAS has just been released — and it changes everything we thought we knew about interstellar objects.
Captured by Hubble and confirmed by James Webb and ESA’s Mars orbiters, this third-ever interstellar visitor shows a strange CO₂-dominated coma, eight times richer than any known comet, and a tear-shaped dust cloud facing the Sun — something NASA scientists can’t fully explain.
