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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Interstellar Comet
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 178 million miles (286 million kilometers) from Earth. Hubble tracked the comet as it moved across the sky. As a result, backgro...
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- Dec 13, 2025
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- Hubble Space Telescope
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 178 million miles (286 million kilometers) from Earth. Hubble tracked the comet as it moved across the sky. As a result, background stars appear as streaks of light.
Hubble previously observed 3I/ATLAS in July, shortly after its discovery, and a number of NASA missions have since studied the comet as well. Observations are expected to continue for several more months as 3I/ATLAS heads out of the solar system.
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| Author | NASA Science Editorial TeamNASA Science Editorial Team |
| Date | December 4, 2025December 4, 2025 |
| Blog | Comet 3I/ATLAS |
| Categories | 3I/ATLAS, Comets, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, The Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, Comets, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, The Solar System |
| Image Credits | NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) |
| Caption | NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. |
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