Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP) – Telescope observations are: comet It is visiting from another star.
The photographs taken by Chile’s Gemini Southeres Scope late last month, released Thursday, are the most detailed of the comets recently discovered. They show wide coma of dust and gas around ice balls and a tail that is extended more than it was as it was as it was Previous shot.
These new images confirm that comets are more active as they cultivate harmlessly through the solar system, according to Noirlab, a telescope-operated National Space Foundation. It is the third known interstellar object that follows our path.
The comet, known as 3i-atlas, takes the closest approach to the Sun at the end of October and stays in Mars’ orbit.
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