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Interstellar object 3I/Atlas spotted passing by Mars in new images
NBC News· 2025-10-08 01:54
And let's get into it with one of our favorite interstellar experts, Harvard professor Avi Lobe. Professor, welcome back. Starting with these new images from AESA's ExoMars orbiter.What stands out to you. Any surprises here. Well, uh, the fact is that we see an image very similar to the Hubble Space Telescope image that was obtained on July 21st. Qualitatively speaking, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope is a much bigger has a much bigger mirror, 2.4% m in diameter, whereas this camera that was used on E ...
Planetary defense system spots interstellar object
NBC News· 2025-07-04 02:30
Hey, welcome back. Tonight on the future of everything, interstellar. How amazing is it that we humans have a word for something that literally flies between stars.And so far, we've only known about two interstellar visitors in our recorded history. That is until now because astronomers have just detected another something out there blazing into our solar system at like 152,000 m an hour. And unlike Earth and the rest of the planets that are locked into orbit, this thing is not going to be here for very lon ...