3I/ATLAS: The Truth About The Interstellar Comet Everyone’s Watching

While online conspiracies swirl, comet 3I/ATLAS made a close pass by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a ...
AOL

Why Aren’t All Comets as Bright as Comet Lemmon?

No two comets are exactly alike. While SWAN’s orbit is very well aligned with the plane of the planets as they orbit the sun, Lemmon’s orbit is highly inclined, tipped by more than 140 degrees ...

NASA's Hubble telescope gets another look at 3I/ATLAS. Here's what it found

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.
IFLScience

How A Comet On Christmas Day Changed What We Knew About Space

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...
Scientific American

Alien Comets Swarm around Other Stars

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our ...
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Could the Star of Bethlehem have actually been a comet?

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.