NASA's Hubble telescope gets another look at 3I/ATLAS. Here's what it found
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught a glimpse of 3I/ATLAS – again. The interstellar comet, which is hurtling through space on a path that will soon see it whizzing by Earth in December, recently found itself in the sights of Hubble. The iconic observatory, launched into orbit in 1990, first spotted 3I/ATLAS in July shortly after the object was spotted in Earth's solar system after coming from elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. For months, 3I/ATLAS has attracted plenty of attention –
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