A member of the ICQ Comet Observations group has launched a brand new picture of 3I/ATLAS, the third object and the second comet from exterior the Photo voltaic System confirmed.
This picture of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured with the Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope on November 16, 2025. Picture credit score: Satoru Murata.
3I/ATLAS was found by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Final Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on July 1, 2025.
The comet’s orbit is probably the most dynamically excessive of any object but recorded within the Photo voltaic System.
3I/ATLAS, also referred to as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and A11pl3Z, reached its closest method to the Solar on October 30, 2025.
The identical picture of 3I/ATLAS on a coordinate grid. Picture credit score: Satoru Murata.
On November 16, 2025, Satoru Murata from the ICQ Comet Observations group noticed the comet utilizing the 0.2-m Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope.
The brand new pictures present three separate jets in the direction of in addition to one jet away from the Solar.
“I captured the interstellar comet early morning as a skinny crescent Moon handed instantly subsequent to it,” said Murata, who is predicated in New Mexico, the USA.
“Nonetheless was capable of seize three separate jets of ionic tail, and an anti tail? Or the mud tail?”
“The comet was additionally passing by the galaxy NGC 4691, which actually appeared like the item being from one other world,” he added.
