New imagery from NASA shows a celestial outsider known as 3I/ATLAS as it travels through our solar system.
Before now, researchers have been relying solely on ground-based observatories or Earth-orbiting spacecraft to track 3I/ATLAS's position, which only provides specific views of the anomalous object, according to LiveScience.
The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) observatory made the discovery of Comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1 of this year.
The object, known as 3I/ATLAS, primarily appears as an illuminated spot in the eagerly anticipated images, but some also show the comet's tail as a faint, elongated streak.
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