The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star.
NASA and the European Space Agency released the latest photos Thursday.
Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to pass our way and poses no threat to Earth.
It’s aliens! It can only be aliens scouting our system! I wrote an entire book about it! Buy my book! Other scientists don’t want to do real science!
Oh, wait, wrong comet.
I hope they’re coming to save us from facists, oligarchs and technofacists ….if not maybe they will just do us all a favor and make it quick
It’s going to be on the opposite side of the sun from us when it passes.
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The vogons don’t care. They’re just here to clear the way for the highway.
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That is crazy fast. That’s almost freaking 2 hundredths of a percent of the speed of light.
It’s only like 3x as fast as the Voyager Satellite.
If we’re talking about Voyager 1, it should be at about 42 km/s now according to the graph on Wikipedia. 130,000 mph is about 0.019 % of c. 42 km/s is about 0.014 % of c. So this comet is about one third faster than the Voyager 1.
Btw I don’t think the Voyager space probes are considered satellites? They don’t orbit the earth, nor the sun. Not sure about that one though.
Trump states that this was actually discovered the week before by an american republican. MAGA! /s
I hope it never reappears in December just to spice things up.
