Astronomers find interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hiding in images taken before its official discovery
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It turns out interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it …
It turns out interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially discovered. 3I/ATLAS was officially identified on July 1, 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which is a network of robotic telescopes in Hawaii, Chile and South Africa. But ten days before, the Vera C. …
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