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DescriptionDeep VLT image of 3I-ATLAS, a new interstellar object (potw2527a).jpg |
English: ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object discovered last week. Identified as a comet, 3I/ATLAS is only the third visitor from outside the Solar System ever found, after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. Its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, unlike that of objects in the Solar System, gave away its interstellar origin. This VLT image is the result of stacking several observations obtained on the night of 3 July 2025. When combining the different frames, the background stars were removed, showing only a deep image of the interstellar comet. The data were obtained with the FORS2 instrument, and are available in the ESO archive. |
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object discovered last week. Identified as a comet, 3I/ATLAS is only the third visitor from outside the Solar System ever found, after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov.
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Credit/Provider | ESO/O. Hainaut |
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Date and time of data generation | 09:00, 8 July 2025 |
JPEG file comment | ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object discovered last week. Identified as a comet, 3I/ATLAS is only the third visitor from outside the Solar System ever found, after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. Its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, unlike that of objects in the Solar System, gave away its interstellar origin. This VLT image is the result of stacking several observations obtained on the night of 3 July 2025. When combining the different frames, the background stars were removed, showing only a deep image of the interstellar comet. The data were obtained with the FORS2 instrument, and are available in the ESO archive. Links Timelapse of the observations Single image with the entire sequence |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 26.8 (Windows) |
Date and time of digitizing | 15:56, 7 July 2025 |
File change date and time | 16:26, 7 July 2025 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:26, 7 July 2025 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:0e9fecca-511f-4d49-b357-b82cf5c49bd1 |
Keywords | 3I/ATLAS |
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