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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth. Here’s How to View It With Binoculars or a Telescope
On December 19, avid skywatchers can catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor through powerful binoculars or a telescope when it’s around 170 million miles from our home planet ...
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NASA details plan to map the Milky Way with the Roman telescope
NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope ...
The comet will reach its closest point to Earth at 1am EST (6am GMT) today, coming within 270 million kilometers of us. ...
The interstellar comet is set to make its closest flyby on December 19, a date everyone has been waiting for. You can catch ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth today (Dec. 19, 2025). Here's the latest news you need to ...
The commercialisation of the cosmos is already underway, and our current laws aren’t fit for purpose ...
By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...
Don't let anyone else choose your next telescope, camera or binoculars for you. These are important pieces of equipment you should treat yourself to!
Telescopes are fun to point around the sky, but they’re even better when you have some idea of what you’re actually looking at. Experienced sky-gazers love nothing more than whipping out some quality ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS wasn't supposed to be there — meet the astronomer who discovered it
Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During its July 1, 2025 detection, the interstellar object happened to be moving ...
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