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Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what you’ll need to catch a glimpse.
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which is investigating a group of asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun, snapped this image on September 16 as 3I/ATLAS approached Mars. NASA / Goddard / SwRI / ...
New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...