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A rare cosmic alignment on January 22 will light up mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS
Astronomers are preparing for a rare cosmic event on January 22, when interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will align closely with Earth and the Sun, passing within just 0.69 degrees of the Sun-Earth axis.
The depths of interstellar space have thrown another cosmic puzzle into our solar system. The most recent information about the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS has astronomers both confused and interested.
Images of 3I/ATLAS through 170 second exposures by the WFC3 UVIS (F350LP) camera of the Hubble Space Telescope, processed through the Larson-Sekanina rotation gradient filter, show a double jet ...
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