It's moving in the opposite direction that the planets spin. It gets the closest to Mars before it ultimately leaves the Solar System.
Posted on 08/07/2025 5:51:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently passing through our Solar System.
Observations by Hubble have enabled astronomers to better estimate the size of the comet's nucleus, which is made of dust and ice.
Hubble managed to capture a dust plume being ejected by the comet, as well as a glimpse of a dust tail streaming away from its nucleus.
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(Excerpt) Read more at skyatnightmagazine.com ...
“Sterilize Imperfections”
From ~412 000 000 km away…
For their own sake, they shouldn’t land here.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s...
“We’re going to need a BIGGER PLANET!”
“IF our domestic communist regime can’t tax it, they’ll just ban it.”
Or house it and get it Medicare and motor voter.
wy69
Hale-Bopp a lula...
The mother ship is peeking out behind it...
Boy, that is a sharp image...can see all the contours and coruscations of the object...must be an alien structure...
There’s a meme of two aliens looking up a statue of Jesus being crucified on the Cross. One turns to the other and says…
“Do you know what need to do? We need to get out of here, that’s what we need to do.”
They didn’t stop off for a cuppa? Rude.
It's moving in the opposite direction that the planets spin. It gets the closest to Mars before it ultimately leaves the Solar System.
This and posts like this is because I want a like button.
Source is actually a BBC URL.
I hate giving them my data. They want to force you. I refuse.
Something like this ?
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Either I need new glasses or I need to stop reading the Daily Mail.
I thought it said “Hubbie captures sharpest image yet of interstellar visitor passing through ...”
Astronomy photos are amazing, but I could duplicate these images by looking through the bottom of a Coke bottle at a dim pen light in the confines of a dark room.
... Live Science reported that “the overwhelming consensus is that it is a comet,” ...
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Consensus science - now what other science uses that phrase to justify its conclusions?
If those are the sharpest images that the Hubble telescope can produce someone needs to take some lens cleaner into space and polish the lenses.
That could easily be correct - if it travels in a reasonably straight line.
From the link...
"Astronomers say its speed suggests it's been zooming through interstellar space for billions of years, sped up by the gravitational force of stars and nebulae."
It travels 1.14 billion miles per year - at 130,000 mph.
The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away - about 15 trillion miles.
15 trillion miles divided by 1.14 billion miles = 13,200 years.
(Full disclosure: I've never seen one. But if I did, it would look just like that, or something else.)
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