KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is thought to have originated well outside the Milky Way.

The comet, first spotted on July 1 by the NASA -funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, is only the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system.

It was first observed while around 420 million miles away from Earth, near the planet Jupiter, and was estimated to be traveling at a speed of around 130,000 mph.

Despite its extraordinary speed and trajectory, NASA said the comet poses no threat to Earth or the Moon, with the object remaining about 150 million miles away from the planet.

While the comet’s solid core cannot yet be directly seen, even thr

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