In the vastness of our cosmic neighborhood, a few visitors, that do not belong to our Solar System, sometimes appear. One of them is 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object identified so far, whose behavior continues to astonish the astronomical community all around the world.

After its closest approach to the Sun, recorded on October 30th, observations from Hubble and the James Webb confirmed an extraordinary speed: 57 kilometers per second (205,200 km/h), more than twice the speed reached by Oumuamua in 2017.

Such speed would be impossible for an object trapped by the Sun’s gravity; however, since 3I/ATLAS is not bound by the gravity of the Solar System, its behavior is completely different.

Precisely that freedom is what sets it apart from bodies that are born near the Sun. It’s traj

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