Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to pass our way.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star.

NASA and the European Space Agency released the latest photos Thursday.

Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to pass our way and poses no threat to Earth.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    That is crazy fast. That’s almost freaking 2 hundredths of a percent of the speed of light.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        23 days ago

        If we’re talking about Voyager 1, it should be at about 42 km/s now according to the graph on Wikipedia. 130,000 mph is about 0.019 % of c. 42 km/s is about 0.014 % of c. So this comet is about one third faster than the Voyager 1.

        Btw I don’t think the Voyager space probes are considered satellites? They don’t orbit the earth, nor the sun. Not sure about that one though.