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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on

Nov. 30

, 2025, as observed by the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA missions all across the solar system have collected data about the comet to be shared in public archives.

NASA, ESA, STScI, D.

Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T.

Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J.

DePasquale (STScI)

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives.…