NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a deeper look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS , with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, as it zoomed through the solar system on Nov. 30.

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects zipping through the solar system, other galaxies, and exoplanets, NASA explains, and allows astronomers to study stars and galaxies farther back in time more than ever.

NASA first spotted interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming through the solar system in summer 2025 with the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile.

Scientists determined it to be interstellar due to its high velocity and trajectory, as it’s only the third known discovered object to pass through from the outside.

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