Interstellar Visitor is Fastest Comet Ever Recorded | NASA Goddard

Interstellar Visitor is Fastest Comet Ever Recorded | NASA Goddard

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just captured an incredible image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system at 130,000 mph!

This cosmic wanderer from beyond our solar system may have been traveling for billions of years before astronomers spotted it.

Learn what this ancient visitor may reveal about our galaxy's history and why scientists are racing to study it before its close encounter with the Sun in 2025.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Paul Morris: Lead Producer

Video Credits:
Halley’s Comet Animation via Pond5
Milky Way Timelapse via Pond5
Comet Grazing the Sun (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Exocomets in Solar System
ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger
Comets orbiting White Dwarf Star
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
Oumuamua Image
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2025

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