Comets

Comets

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Image of comet 3I/ATLAS in x-ray light, as seen by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton spacecraft. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/C. Lisse, S. Cabot & the XMM ISO Team

This is what 3I/ATLAS looks like in x-ray light. Interstellar comet glows as its gases smash into solar wind

Image of comet 3I/ATLAS over Egypt's Black Desert, captured by Osama Faithi, 29 November 2025, 03:00 local time. Equipment: Nikon Z6 astro-modified camera, RedCat telescope lens

Photographer captures interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS glowing over Egypt's Black Desert

Comet 2025 A6 Lemmon, captured by John Chumack, Fairborn, Ohio, 17 October 2025, 06:01 EST. Equipment: Seestar 50S smart telescope. Exposure: Equatorial Mode, 10 second subs exposures stacked, 3 x 3 minutes stacked

Now's your best chance to see Comet Lemmon and autumn's top meteor shower. Here's how

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by the Gemini North Telescope. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii). Image Processing: Jen Miller & Mahdi Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Interstellar comet is about to make extremely close passes of Earth, Mars and the Sun

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