A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system.

Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers and the world's space agencies are still intrigued enough to want to observe 3I/ATLAS as closely as possible.

The James Webb Space Telescope and SPHEREx are the latest observatories to image the comet since NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope got a glimpse of it.

Two more of NASA's space telescopes recently got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS , a captivating interstellar interloper that first captured the world's attention in July.

The object – just the third ever to be observed in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from another solar system – was first observed by NASA's Hubble S

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