Hold onto your lab coats, space fans! 🧑🔬 NASA and the European Space Agency just dropped Hubble’s sharpest-ever images of 3I-Atlas – a cosmic snowball visiting our solar system from another star system. Talk about an interstellar road trip! 🚀
Discovered last month via a telescope in Chile, this icy traveler is only the third known visitor from beyond our solar neighborhood. While it’s zooming toward us at 209,000 km/h (faster than your Wi-Fi buffer time ⚡), it’ll safely swing closer to Mars than Earth. Phew! 🌍❌
Hubble’s latest pics revealed the comet’s dusty tail and teardrop-shaped dust plume. Scientists initially thought its core was tens of kilometers wide, but new data suggests it’s way smaller – maybe just 320 meters! That’s tinier than most sci-fi movie asteroids. 🎥💫
"Hubble’s helping us solve this cosmic puzzle," NASA shared, though even its super-lens can’t spot the comet’s solid heart yet. The comet was 446 million km away in these shots – basically a space selfie from another zip code. 📸
Next stop? 3I-Atlas will cruise through our solar system like a VIP tourist before heading back to the great galactic unknown. ✨
