NASA has finally published several observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS that were taken during the long government shutdown. In a special press conference, the space agency released images from eight different missions that add to the Hubble, JWST, and SPHEREx observations from the summer, as well as those from NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope, which discovered 3I/ATLAS on July 1. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

There are some pretty unique images in this exceptional haul. The confirmation that NASA’s Perseverance actually saw the comet is extraordinary: these were the very first observations of a comet from another planet in the Solar System. The observations happen

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