A Rare Visitor From Beyond the Solar System: NASA and ISRO have joined forces to observe one of the most extraordinary cosmic travellers ever detected, 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet hurtling through space at an incredible 130,000 miles per hour. Captured using India’s 1.2-metre Mount Abu telescope and a fleet of NASA spacecraft, this celestial object marks only the third confirmed interstellar visitor after ‘Oumuamua and Borisov.

On November 19, ISRO released high-resolution images from the Mount Abu Observatory, while NASA published a multi-mission dataset offering some of the closest and clearest views of the comet as it swept past Mars.

NASA’s Mars Orbiters Catch the Comet Up Close

As 3I/ATLAS approached the Red Planet earlier this autumn, three NASA spacecraft locked their instru

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