It’s doing a Sun run.
Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS — which scientists suspect could have extraterrestrial origins — will reach its closest approach to the Sun on October 30.
While ATLAS doesn’t actually orbit our solar star, the intergalactic entity’s trajectory nonetheless brings it closer to the Sun, and then further away — a phenomenon known as a perihelion approach, Space.com reported.
At its closest point, 3I/ATLAS will be around 130 million miles away from our light source, just inside the orbit of Mars.
This means that the comet won’t pose any threat to Earth, only passing within 170 million miles of our planet, NASA.com reported.
In fact, stargazers won’t even be able to glimpse ATLAS’ historic Sun run.
When ATLAS shifted to the opposite side of the Sun in September, it b

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