{"id":3167,"date":"2025-08-11T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/nasa-issues-major-update-on-interstellar-object-hurtling-through-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:07:16","slug":"nasa-issues-major-update-on-interstellar-object-hurtling-through-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/nasa-issues-major-update-on-interstellar-object-hurtling-through-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA issues major update on \u2018interstellar object\u2019 hurtling through solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-11 14:07:14<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a striking update on a mysterious comet racing through our solar system from another star.<BR><br \/>\nThe object, named 3I\/ATLAS, was first detected on 1 July around 420 million miles from the Sun. <BR><br \/>\nNow, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the clearest images yet, showing it speeding at a record-breaking 130,000mph &#8211; the fastest interstellar object ever found.<BR><br \/>\nThe images reveal that 3I\/ATLAS is far smaller than first believed, with an icy core between 1,000 feet and 3.5 miles wide. <BR><br \/>\nDespite its size, it is still the largest known interstellar visitor, up to 14 times bigger than the second largest. <BR><br \/>\nScientists are confident it is a comet made of ice, dust, and frozen gases, with a tail and dust plume visible as it moves closer to the Sun.<BR><br \/>\nIt will make its nearest approach in late October, passing 130 million miles from the Sun &#8211; inside Mars\u2019 orbit \u2013 but poses no danger to Earth.<BR><br \/>\nDr David Jewitt, science team leader for the Hubble observations, said: \u201cNo one knows where the comet came from. <BR><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second. You can\u2019t project that back with any accuracy to figure out where it started on its path.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nBelieved to be over eight billion years old, 3I\/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected, following 1I\/\u2019Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I\/Borisov in 2019. <BR><br \/>\nMore telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope, will observe it before it disappears from view later this year.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-11 14:07:14 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a striking update on a mysterious comet racing through our solar system from another star. The object, named 3I\/ATLAS,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}