NASA is set on Wednesday to release new images of an interstellar object called 3I / ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system.

3I / ATLAS was first spotted in July by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS , telescope located in Rio Hurtado, Chile, and has been tracked by astronomers since then. Its unusual trajectory indicated that it was passing through our solar system from parts unknown.

NASA said 3I / ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will get no closer than about 170 million miles (275 million km) to our planet. 3I / ATLAS flew within about 19 million miles (30 million km) of Mars last month.

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya and Nicola Fox, associa

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