Our interstellar visitor is visible again after reaching its closest approach to the Sun yesterday. The PUNCH mission, a group of small satellites studying the Sun, spotted comet 3I/ATLAS as it came out of the Sun’s glare. The interstellar comet, the third known object formed in another star system to be tracked through our Solar System, was spotted beyond the limb of the Sun after its highly anticipated solar conjunction, the moment where it was on the opposite side of the Sun from our point of view. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

For serious astronomers, these last few weeks have been exciting. The interstellar comet is a lot more active than the previous two interstellar objects, 1I/’Oumuamua , discovered in 201

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