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.

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    23 days ago

    Its to bad we can’t like blast something like a voyager on to these kind of things. Its like 4 or 5 times faster than them.

    • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Actually, there’s a project called Breakthrough Starshot that’s working on exactly this - developing tiny light-sail probes that could potentially intercept passing interstellar objects and send back data, though the challange of matching those incredible speeds is still a major hurdle for our current technology.