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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

An interstellar comet first spotted passing through our solar system in July is beginning its departure from our corner of the universe — but first it will fly by Earth, and scientists are capturing ...

A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory and ...

It was 4 a.m. on Nov. 25 at the top of Hawaii's dormant Maunakea volcano. The process to view the comet took less time than expected. On the main screen, the subject at hand, interstellar comet ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Qicheng Zhang has captured the first ground-based optical images of Comet 3I/ATLAS following its closest approach to the Sun, thanks to the unique low-horizon ...